Clothes in the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Because of their compelling visual and artistic qualities and relative scarcity, Schiaparelli designs are highly prized. Rockefeller, of Standard Oil, had the means to buy fine couture clothing and the confidence and panache to wear even the most extreme designs.
Fine pieces from other donors include a rare resort ensemble from comprising two silk half-dresses that wrap to make a whole Her work has not only broadly influenced the fashion world but also noted individual designers, including Charles James , Geoffrey Beene, and Yves Saint Laurent.
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Despite her remarkable contribution to fashion, after World War II the conversation about the brand went silent for almost a century. Today, Maison Schiaparelli has been experiencing its second renaissance under the enthusiastic leadership of the new Creative Director, Daniel Roseberry. With its iconic historical moments and promising future, Schiaparelli's fortified aesthetics are here to stay beyond the momentary trends.
Schiaparelli grew up an Italian aristocrat who was surrounded among the finest masterpieces of baroque art of the 18th century Corsini palace in Rome, had a deep understanding of beauty since she was a child. Her fashion journey started in , when she moved to Paris. Earning a blessing from the prominent fashion designer at the time, Paul Poiret, Schiaparelli began rising in fashion. Schiaparelli and Chanel had then become rivals, periodically "stealing" each other's clients.
In contrast to Chanel, whose classic designs featured black and white, Schiaparelli pioneered color in all its extravagance — Schiaparelli "invented" the iconic fuchsia or what she called "shocking pink.
Schiaparelli loved "shocking" the crowd — both on the runway and in her social outings. She showed up at parties in ostrich feathers and now-banned orangutan fur coats. Elsa was as "hip" as she could be for the conservative s. Ignoring the disapproving looks, she followed her own artistic vision, reining her designs with surrealist sexuality. The bizarre hats, manicured gloves, a bra with hands — those are just a few iconic items that Schiaparelli had forever imprinted in fashion history.
Some of the most marvelous creations had also resulted from Elsa's friendship with the famed surrealist artist, Salvador Dali. Some of those iconic masterpieces featured the famous skeleton dress that imitated a shape of a human skeleton on the back - an allusion to the popular image of a stoop-shouldered woman popularized by Greta Garbo , as well as the famous lobster dress and a shoe hat. Schiaparelli was also the first designer to dedicate a collection to certain themes, like "Circus," "Zodiac," and "Pagan.
Even though it was Gianni Versace who became the most famous for hiring "supermodels" for his runway shows and ultimately making it the driving marketing strategy of his brand, Elsa Schiaparelli was probably among the first couturiers in the scene who started practicing it. The "supermodels" that walked her runway shows were blue-blood Russian emigres that settled in France after fleeing the revolution. Lyud Fedoseeva, for example, was a favorite model of both Chanel and Schiaparelli and had also become an object of fight between the two women, with one trying to outpay the other to have the model for the show.
Many famous clients also contributed to the brand's success, becoming what we would now call "brand ambassadors. Her hourglass figure had become a prototype for the iconic "Shocking" perfume design, that resembled her curves. The risque ad became another shockwave that hit the traditional crowd in Decades later it was famously recreated by Jean Paul Gaultier in his own perfume collection.
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