Elsa Schiaparelli (Italian: Elsa Schiaparelli) - Italian fashion designer, designer, creator of the ready-to-wear style. She is considered the main fashion reformer in her entire history. But how many people know her now, remember this name and what she did for the fashion world. But she was the discoverer of many things. The creator of the unusual and incredible!

name="cut"/> Elsa Schiaparelli was born on September 10, 1890 in a family of Italian aristocrats with a rich pedigree. The girl was ugly and often annoyed teachers and mother with her eccentric antics and mobility. Once she decided to plant flowers on her face: she poured seeds even in her ears and nose and almost suffocated.

Her father, Ernesto Schiaparelli, one of the largest archaeologists of the late XIX - early XX century, was passionately passionate about the East (and Tunisia was the first impression in Skype's life), and the Egyptians were the ancestors of her mother. She was the beloved niece of the famous astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, who studied Mars, Venus and Mercury. She lived and worked in the incredible 30s, was friends and collaborated with Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso, Kees van Dongen and Horst P. Horst, Man Ray and Jean Cocteau, Coco herself competed with her and she practiced Givenchy. For two decades, from the 1930s to the 1950s, she held the palm on the world catwalks, which is already a sensation for fashion.

Schiaparelli did not know how to cut and did not learn. Once I mastered knitting for a sweater with a bow, which brought her first success. Elsa was not going to become a couturier, all she did was do for the sake of contrasting herself with the pompous bourgeois society in which she was born and had the misfortune to rotate.

After an unsuccessful marriage, in order to support herself and her child, as well as to pay for painting lessons, Elsa worked as a tour guide. She drove small groups of tourists to the historical sites of Paris. Her listeners were most often the wives of wealthy Americans, who only wanted to go to fashion stores, to buy everything in order to join the “Paris fashion”. This outraged Elsa, but eventually came up with a brilliant idea. Invented to create something that no one will buy for the sake of prestige, but everyone wants to see. And in response to the words: “What a nightmare!”. She firmly decided that she would shock the audience.

I’m not going to tell her biography, you can learn more about the life of Elsa Schiaparelli on the Internet or read her ="://www. ozon. ru/context/detail/id/19061079/">memoirs. Just outlined some of the points that influenced the work of the incredible Skype.

I want you to look at things you have known for a long time in a new way, because we do not all know about them.



For example, this sofa. Everyone knows that it is Dali, but no one remembers that Skype was involved in the creation of it. This lips is known at that time, actress May West, who dressed at Skype and was her muse.

Hat tablet. This is also an invention of Elsa. True, it was literally a tablet - a tablet of so popular aspirin. More - more: the famous shoe designed also with Dali.



The hats from the Pagan Collection of 1938 were inspired by Botticelli's paintings (remember, she tried to plant flowers on herself).





Leopard hat that was quoted in the Inglourious Basterds movie

Hat eyelashes.



Hat gloves.

What else were these hats so unusual for, besides the shocking details. They opened their foreheads completely, which in those days was incomprehensible to the mind!

Everyone knows the color - fuchsia, but who knows that it was introduced by Skype. It was "shocking pink." He took possession of the fashion world instantly, everything from dresses to lipstick color tried on pink. Elsa has released hats and perfumes in this color.

The print in the form of newspaper articles is not new now, it is both fabric and wallpaper. But again, it was Skype that introduced this print into everyday life. The first scarves and dresses were printed from newspaper clippings about Schiaparelli herself.

Sweater with the effect of trompley (trompe l'oeil). That just now do not knit on sweaters and dresses. But it was Elsa who let this into the world of fashion. Although the idea is not quite hers. This simple sweater with a white bow was the beginning of her career as a couturier. Once a friend in a similar sweater came to her and Skype found out that this was the work of an emigrant from Armenia living nearby. Schiaparelli met that woman and offered her cooperation. Together, they set about creating unusual patterns of clothing. So there appeared a black woolen dress decorated with a bow in the shape of a butterfly.

In the first collection of sweaters, Elsa used motifs of African art and the work of Cubist artists. The next collection caused shock - Schiaparelli performed it according to the drawings of sailor tattoos. There were snakes, anchors, hearts pierced by arrows, etc. She was the first to introduce a drawing called the "fish ridge", and images of lobsters, which from knitwear subsequently switched to silk and bathing suits.

Now you will not surprise anyone with a thing with a print, even with the most unusual. It was a breakthrough at the time. Together with Dali, they created a dress with the image of a lobster “seasoned” with parsley, which was subsequently worn by Wallis Simpson herself, the Duchess of Windsor. Together with Dali and Cocteau, Skjap developed dresses for illusion. For example, dresses with tattered shreds or a dress where there are two profiles or a vase with flowers.



Butterflies (from the Butterflies collection).



Sheet music (from the Music collection).



Clowns and animals (from the "Circus" collection).

By the way, it was she who first began to give names to her collections, which subsequently picked up all the couturiers of the world.



She embroidered her dresses in the most bizarre way.



Plastic flowers, sequins and cords are stacked in incredible patterns. Now you won’t surprise anyone either, but then!

Her dresses were extravagant:



Dress skeleton.



Suit dresser.

One, in my opinion, of the most significant turns in the fashion world from Skype is wearing jewelry to go out. Couturiers of that time laughed at Schiaparelli, but women liked this idea. Along with Coco, who introduced faux pearls, Skiap introduced fashion for glass diamonds and art deco jewelry.



Here again, Dali and Cocteau helped her.





Necklace from the "Pagan Collection". True, the latter traces the influence of astronomy. She loved her uncle and was fond of astronomy. He said that her moles on her cheek remind him of a big dipper.



This is probably why she wore this brooch.



She turned even buttons on jackets into jewelry.

Skjap was the creator of ready-to-wear, many of her things went into circulation and began to be sold in boutiques. By the way, Schiaparelli boutique was opened by one of the first. It was the “Everything for Sport” salon, where items from several items were sold and could also be worn on the way out.





One of the first things that went into circulation was her knitted sweaters and dresses.

Another gift to the world of Skype is perfume bottles of an unusual appearance.

May West so often ordered outfits from Schiaparelli, in order to constantly not be present at the fitting, she sent the Italian a plaster cast of her famous figure in the pose of Venus of Milos. And this inspired the artist Leonor Fini to create a bottle for the first perfumes of Schiaparelli - the legendary “Shoking”.





Then there were perfumes in the form of a smoking pipe, designed together with Dali.



In the form of a candle.

Elsa Schiaparelli made a lot of unusual accessories, which were then unusual, shocking. Nowadays, they no longer cause such a shock, but they are still relevant, interesting and unusual.



Another achievement of her in contrast to Chanel was a contract with a film studio. Coco refused a year later - her costumes were expressionless in the frame. Skype, however, collaborated with the film studio for several years, and sewed only on the main character. And she is still quoted in films. She is also an inspiration to many modern fashion designers.



For example, at the top is a Marni handbag, and at the bottom is a handbag with gloves from Skype.



Skeleton dress by Schiaparelli and a variation by Jean-Paul Gaultier.



A quote from her hat in the Inglourious Basterds movie.



The famous jacket of Schiaparelli, featured in the movie Tea with Mussolini.



Hat shoe in the film Brazil.

Schiaparelli was fond of aviation. After Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic (1927), she showed a series of models that formed the basis of the pilot's style, which survived to our time.

Her simple long sheath dress made of black crepe, combined with a white jacket and a scarf thrown over her back, became the standard of elegance. All couturiers in one way or another repeated this idea.

Another merit of Schiaparelli is lightning. It was she who began to sew the zipper into evening dresses. At that time they were rude and it looked defiant, as though everything related to Skype. Now, an elegant dress with a zipper is a given.

Elsa Schiaparelli was an incredible woman, gave the world a lot of beautiful things and at the same time modestly stepped aside. I think you should know her, even if you do not like Skype like me!



All her works will take up a lot of space, so I suggest that you follow the links and see for yourself.

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Here you can read more about her biography.

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