Italian Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli

Other from the Surrealist paintings, In fashion, Elsa Schiaparelli, would be the fashion designer that had worked with most surrealism elements to her clothes. Elsa Schiaparelli was an Italian fashion designer that borns in 1890 and had the most active in 1930s. She followed the Surrealism movement, and she was friend with many surrealists, such as Salvador Dalí and Jean Cocteau, Picasso ….etc. They shared each others’ idea and thoughts. Therefore, she had collaborated with Salvador Dalí. One famous dress that they made would be the “Lobster Dress”. From this piece, we can see how Schiaparelli was thinking in such different way from other fashion designers. Another famous collaboration piece from Schiaparelli and Dali would be the “Shoe headpiece”, it was designed and drew by Dali, then made it to a wearable piece. …show more content…
the piece is not extremely exaggerate or twisted, instead, it is constructed and made in such a simple form. Moreover, the “Skeleton Dress” was another representative works by Schiaparelli and Dali. This dress was presented in 1939 The black satin color shows the internal of human body or mind, and the convex surface of spine and ribs can suggest the contradiction between reality and conscious; and again, the piece was form in elegant lines. Simple but powerful. In Caroline Evans’s Masks, Mirrors and Mannequins: Elsa Schiaparelli and the Decentered Subject, Fashion Theory, she had described Schiaparelli, "In many of her garments there is no end to this play of surfaces, no “truth” beneath the “lie” of appearances. Masquerade does not imply that femininity is a lie so much as question its essential “truth.”