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Fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli (1890 – 1973) was a provocateur who took pleasure in challenging typical notions of dress. Witty, elegant and often strikingly surreal, her designs incorporate humour and surprise, inviting the viewer to look and look again.
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Introducing Elsa Schiaparelli
Shocking, subversive, surreal – meet Elsa Schiaparelli
Surrealism and design
Originally a radical art movement, in the 1930s Surrealism transformed the design world
'Shocking Life' by Elsa Schiaparelli
Discover the making of Schiaparelli's very first design – a simple sweater with a surreal twist
Fashion unpicked: the Skeleton dress by Elsa Schiaparelli
Get closer to Schiaparelli's famously surreal evening dress, designed with Salvador Dali