Elsa Schiaparelli
Hermès
April 24, 2020Azzedine Alaia
April 24, 2020
The top icon of fashion design, Elsa Schiaparelli was born into an aristocratic family in Italy in 1890. After working at a boutique in New York, Schiaparelli moved to Paris, where she began designing her own clothes. Her work and sense of style shaped the look of fashion in the 1920s and ’30s, and her clothes were worn by some of the world’s most famous women, including American actress Greta Garbo.
She became well-known for her surrealist collaborations with artists such as Salvador Dali and Jean Cocteau, and for her whimsical use of Trompe L'oeil prints on her garments. Schiaparelli died in Paris on November 13, 1973.
