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Jan 4, 2003 · Like many modern artists, Schiaparelli built upon art from the past as well as reacting against it. Her designs follow trends in women’s fashion that had been developing for decades.
Apr 20, 2024 · Explore Surrealism's creativity and Schiaparelli's ongoing impact on style. The bizarre and the surreal inspired the world of Schiaparelli through her avant-garde haute couture designs, as she reimagined the dreamy and otherworldly.
This paper closely analyzes Schiaparelli’s most innovative designs, in conjunction with her memoires, in order to elucidate her conception of female identity, an important but often misconstrued theme in surrealist art.
- Marylaura Papalas
- In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous. Elsa Schiaparelli. Fashion, Style, Difficult Times.
- Dress designing, incidentally, is to me not a profession but an art. Elsa Schiaparelli. Art, Design, Dresses.
- A dress has no life of its own unless it is worn, and as soon as this happens another personality takes over from you and animates it, or tries to, glorifies or destroys it, or makes it into a song of beauty.
- I gave to pink, the nerve of the red, a neon pink, an unreal pink. Elsa Schiaparelli. Nerves, Neon, Red.
This paper closely analyzes Schiaparelli’s most innovative designs, in conjunction with her memoires, in order to elucidate her conception of female identity, an important but often misconstrued theme in surrealist art.
Schiaparelli was drawn to the imaginative freedom in the work of the Surrealist artists whom she befriended on the Paris social scene, leading to numerous collaborative designs. Surrealism’s...
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Among her many contributions to the development of twentieth-century fashion, Schiaparelli’s fearless challenge to the status quo, incorporation of wit and humor into fashion designing, and melding of art with dressmaking rank among the highest.
