Exhibition
Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art
The exhibition has been created in collaboration with Schiaparelli Schiaparelli
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Uncovering Elsa - The truly surreal story of Schiaparelli
Join curator Sonnet Stanfill in conversation with author Justine Picardie for an exploration of Elsa Schiaparelli’s extraordinary life story
Elsa Schiaparelli lived a life as unconventional as the clothing she designed. After her birth in the Corsini Palace in Rome and an aristocratic early upbringing, Schiaparelli broke away from traditional constraints – much to her parents’ dismay – before escaping first to London, then to New York and Paris, to create an iconoclastic identity and a visionary brand that reflected her own reinvention.
Join Sonnet Stanfill, curator of Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art in conversation with Justine Picardie, author of Fashioning the Crown, for a discussion of Schiaparelli’s extraordinary story, which saw her become the leader of avant-garde style, with a client list of strong, independent-minded women from Wallis Simpson to Marlene Dietrich.
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Header image: Elsa Schiaparelli in her boutique at 21 Place Vendôme, Harper's Bazaar, October 1935. Photograph by François Kollar © GrandPalaisRmn - Gestion droit d'auteur François Kollar