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SCHIAPARELLI, Elsa
[254] pp.
E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
1954
Tailpieces by Berard
First Edition
8 3/8" x 6"
Her …
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SCHIAPARELLI, Elsa
[254] pp.
E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
1954
Tailpieces by Berard
First Edition
8 3/8" x 6"
Her name was Elsa Schiaparelli. She was known as the Queen of Fashion; a headline attraction in the international glitter-glamour show of the late twenties and thirties, feted in Rome (where she was born), Paris, New York, London, Moscow, Hollywood . . . Her style was a social revolution through clothing luxurious, eccentric, ironic, sexy. Her fashions, inspired, from the whimsical to the most practical from a Venetian cape of the commedia dell'arte to the Soviet parachute. She collaborated with some of the greatest artists of the twentieth century: on jewelry designs with Jean Schlumberger; on clothes with Salvador Dalí (his lobster dress for her, a lobster garnished with parsley painted on the skirt of an organdy dress, was instantly bought by Wallis Simpson for her honeymoon with the Duke of Windsor) ; with Jean Cocteau, Alberto Giacometti, Christian Bérard, photographers Baron Adolph de Meyer, Horst, Cecil Beaton, and the young Richard Avedon.
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- Dimensions
- 6ʺW × 1ʺD × 8.38ʺH
- Styles
- Traditional
- Period
- 1950s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Paper
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- White
- Condition Notes
- Very good/ Good Very good/ Good less
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