Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973) was an Italian fashion designer from an aristocratic background. She created the house of Schiaparelli in Paris in 1927, which she managed from the 1930s to the 1950s.
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| Fashion designs by Elsa Schiaparelli in the 1940s |
Starting with knitwear, Schiaparelli’s designs celebrated Surrealism and eccentric fashions. Her collections were famous for unconventional and artistic themes like the human body, insects, or trompe-l’œil, and for the use of bright colors like her “shocking pink”.
Schiaparelli famously collaborated with Salvador Dalí and Jean Cocteau. Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest rival, she is regarded as one of the most prominent European figures in fashion between the two World Wars. Her clients included the heiress Daisy Fellowes and actress Mae West.
These beautiful photos captured portraits of classic beauties wearing Schiaparelli’s fashion designs in the 1940s.
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| Lisa Fonssagrives in Hudson Bay sable dip-backed cape by Gunther, black chin-tied bonnet by Schiaparelli, photo by Louise Dahl-Wolfe, painting by Max Weber, Harper's Bazaar, December 1945 |
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| Model in fur-lined redingote is topped with a brown scarf lined with skunk that ties hood-like over your head by Schiaparelli, photo by François Kollar, Harper's Bazaar UK, December 1945 |
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| Lisa Fonssagrives in black taffeta theater coat, the sleeves ballooning out and jutting skirt gathered on a low panel at Bergdorf Goodman, hat by Schiaparelli, photo by Genevieve Naylor, Harper's Bazaar, April 1946 |
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| Ludmila Feodoseyevna modeling a Schiaparelli hat, photo by Horst P. Horst, Paris, 1946 |
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| Model in an iridescent taffeta dinner suit with an "illusion bustle" silhouette and worn with a little blue-rose maline bonnet by Elsa Schiaparelli, photo by John Rawlings, Paris, Vogue, October 15, 1946 |
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| Model in corduroy skirt, the front is perfectly plain, but the back is trouser pleated by Schiaparelli, photo by John Rawlings, Paris, Vogue, October 15, 1946 |
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| Inga Lindgren in white moiré redingote with a watery sheen, a heavy satin lining and turquoise blue hood caught up by a purple-and-white striped bow by Schiaparelli, photo by Maurice Tabard, Harper's Bazaar, May 1947 |
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| Model in a boned chin-high eyelet Gibson Girl shirtwaist with flat-boned cummerbund worn with horsehair hat, by Schiaparelli, photo by Serge Balkin, Vogue, April 1, 1947 |
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| Model in dinner suit and headdress by Schiaparelli, photo by Horst P. Horst, 1947 |
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| Model in narrow tweed suit, the jacket buttoned diagonally by Swansdown, calf satchel by Schiaparelli, photo by Horst P. Horst, Vogue, July 15, 1947 |
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| Model is wearing a yellow straw mushroom-shaped hat by Schiaparelli, photo by Clifford Coffin, Vogue, April 1, 1947 |
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| Lisa Fonssagrives is wearing a black patent leather hat with pie-section crown, thick brim, the look of a tin helmet, by Schiaparelli, photo by Richard Avedon, Harper's Bazaar, October 1948 |
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| Maxime de la Falaise in coat by Schiaparelli, Napoleonesque coiffure by Guillaume, photo by Clifford Coffin, Paris, October 15, 1948 |
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| Model in charming white dotted Swiss organdy gown, the skirt pulled all to the back into a low panier caught with a bow of peach colored organdy by Schiaparelli, photo by Richard Avedon, Paris, Harper's Bazaar, June 1948 |
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| Model in day dress by Elsa Schiaparelli, photo by Willy Maywald in front of Schiaparelli's store at 21 Place Vendome, Paris, 1948 |
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| Model is wearing a beautiful bottle-green satin dress, the bodice has intricate back folds, by Elsa Schiaparelli, photo by Philippe Pottier, 1948 |
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| Monique in suit by Schiaparelli, photo by Richard Avedon, Ile de la Citè, Paris, 1948 |
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| Alla poses in a broadtail lamb pullover and skirt designed by Elsa Schiaparelli, photo by Genevieve Naylor, 1949 |
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| Barbara Mullen is wearing a dinner cap of shiny green leaves and tube roses by Schiaparelli, photo by Lillian Bassman at Le Grand Véfour, Paris, Harper's Bazaar, April 1949 |
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| Comtesse Maxime de la Falaise in narrow black dinner dress with a vast white linen collar by Schiaparelli, photo by Richard Dormer, Harper's Bazaar UK, July 1949 |
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| Dorian Leigh is wearing a hair ornament of French paste by Schiaparelli, photo by Richard Avedon, Paris, Harper's Bazaar UK, October 1949 |
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| Evening gown by Elsa Schiaparelli, 1949 |
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| Model in coat by Elsa Schiaparelli, photo by Genevieve Naylor, New York, 1949 |
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| Sophie Malgat in rayon taffeta evening dress, skirt is in three tiers, by Schiaparelli, photo by Varry, 1949 |
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