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f you have ever worn a reversible coat, shoes covered in fur or painted a wall shocking pink, you have benefited from the legacy of Elsa Schiaparelli. Before the second world war the Italy-born designer was a marvel of ideas, which raised her from the realm of clever designer into the rarefied atmosphere of the revolutionary.
Schiaparelli put zippers on dresses, paint on pleats and covered bare shoulders – exposed by evening dresses – with matching jackets. She invented the wrap dress, built-in bra, split skirt, created pixie hats and the ultimate tour de force: a dress cut from a single length of fabric.
Although she lived and worked in Paris, her main sales went to the UK and the US. During the Depression she was particularly resourceful, turning single items of clothing into multifunctional pieces that might do double or triple duty in a wardrobe; a day dress might be made eveningwear with the release of a button. In prohibition America, Schiaparelli designed a dress with a hidden pocket for a flask. During the war, her siren suit allowed the wearer to enter a bomb shelter in style.
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Her collaborations with artists such as Salvador Dalí, Cecil Beaton and Jean Cocteau broke down the barriers between the world of dressmaking and the fine arts. Her maxim was “Dare to be different”, and she was. At her peak, in 1937 to 1939, in Paris, she employed 600 workers and sold 10,000 garments a year. And yet by 1959 her house had gone bankrupt. She died in 1973, aged 83, at her mansion in Paris. Her legacy is condensed to a colour: Schiaparelli pink.
People no longer remember the impudent daring that infused much of her work. It was said that Dalí liked to relax with a shoe on his head, so Schiaparelli took a high-heeled shoe and made it into a hat. Like many of the Surrealists, her desire to “épater le bourgeois” was expressed in her shocking pink, “Shocking” perfume and the title of her 1954 autobiography, Shocking Life.
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Other ideas followed. Picking up Dalí’s theme of the lobster, Schiaparelli painted one on to the skirt of a diaphanous white silk organza gown, complete with some tasteful sprinklings of parsley. (Dalí wanted to add real mayonnaise but Schiaparelli wouldn’t let him.) Using a bolt of silk with prints that depicted flayed flesh, she then took on a necrophilia-themed painting by Dalí. The resulting “tear dress” seems almost benign.
The sense of fun so instrumental in Schiaparelli’s Surrealist period tends to obscure one important fact. Besides being beautifully made, her designs were always flattering. There was in her work a strong element of garbo – an Italian sense of the fitness of things – that reflected her Roman background.
As the daughter of Celestino Schiaparelli, head of the Accademia dei Lincei, the science academy that Galileo helped found, the young Elsa had grown up in the palazzo in which the 17th-century library is housed, skipping along the galleries and playing under the lemon trees on the banks of the Tiber.
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She was a lonely child, and criticised for her looks. Her older sister was a beauty and Elsa was told from an early age that she was plain. She would later describe how, as a youth, she had stuffed flower seeds into her ears, nose and throat in the hope the resulting blooms might make her more beautiful – and almost choking to death in the process.
By the time Schiaparelli reached adolescence the conviction of ugliness was ingrained, and she resolved that clothes would have to do for her what beauty could not. For a ball, she wrapped herself in a homemade gown. It was quite a success, until the hastily assembled work began to unravel and her escort steered her off the dance floor just in time. By then, she had left home – she never went back – and taken up work as a nanny in London.
Schiaparelli was reserved, wrote poetry and dreamt of a handsome lover who would sweep her away on a white stallion. She was fascinated by psychic phenomena and the paranormal. Yet she was also a shrewd businesswoman. In Paris in 1927, she had the bright idea of knitting a trompe l’oeil pattern – a knotted bow – into the neckline of a humble sweater. As an entrée into the world of fashion, it could not have been better chosen. At a ladies’ luncheon, the design was spotted by a couple of New York buyers and by the time coffee was served she had an order for 40 similar pieces, with matching skirts. Schiaparelli followed this with dozens of other clever creations and her first tiny company, “Pour le Sport”, was born. By 1930 she was appearing in advertisements for Lux Soap Flakes. By 1935 she had opened a chic salon on the Place Vendôme and, no slouch in the art of self-promotion, had become famous.
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