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Elsa Luisa Maria Schiaparelli was born at the Palazzo Corsini, Rome. [8] Her mother, Giuseppa Maria de Dominicis, [9] was a Neapolitan aristocrat. [10] Her father, Celestino Schiaparelli, a Piedmontese, was an accomplished scholar with multiple areas of interest. [11]
Maison Schiaparelli (/ ˌ s k æ p ə ˈ r ɛ l i /; Italian: [skjapaˈrɛlli]) is a haute couture house created by avant-garde Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli in 1927, [1] and moving towards luxury ready-to-wear after being bought in 2007 by Diego Della Valle.
Schiaparelli donated her own copy of the dress to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1969. [3] The dress was extensively analysed by Claire Eldred in her essay "Encounters and Exchanges with Elsa Schiaparelli's Lobster Dress: an Object Biography" in the 2019 book Fashion and Contemporaneity: Realms of the Visible. [9]
Schlumberger began his career creating buttons for Elsa Schiaparelli in the 1930s. Schiaparelli later commissioned him to design costume jewelry for her firm. During World War II, Schlumberger was an officer in the French Army and survived the Battle of Dunkirk.
Wallis Simpson’s Schiaparelli lobster dress, 1937 “It’s the dress that not only added fuel to a royal scandal but also cemented Elsa Schiaparelli’s status as fashion’s surrealist-in-chief.
Berenson's maternal grandmother was the Italian-born fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, [5] and her maternal grandfather was Wilhelm de Wendt de Kerlor, a Theosophist and psychic medium. [1] [6] [7] Her elder sister, Marisa Berenson, became a well-known model and actress.
Schiaparelli is a Parisian couture house founded in 1927 by Elsa Schiaparelli, a designer known for her bold, surrealist styles. The house went bankrupt in 1954, but was revived in the 21st century, presenting its first new runway collection in 2014.
In women's fashion, shoulder pads originally became popular in the 1930s when fashion designers Elsa Schiaparelli and Marcel Rochas included them in their designs of 1931. [2] Though Rochas may have been the first to present them, [ 3 ] Schiaparelli was the most consistent in promoting them during the 1930s and '40s and it is her name that came ...