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MOTHER OF INVENTION.(fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli)
Elsa Schiaparelli's signature color was a violent magenta that she admired, she said, because it was "life-giving, like all the light and the birds and the fish in the world put together, a color of China and Peru but not of the West." She called it "Shocking." In French lingerie shops, it is still referred to as le shocking, and Yves Saint Laurent describes it in his foreword to Palmer White's knowledgeable 1986 biography ("Elsa Schiaparelli: Empress of Paris Fashion") as a pink with "the nerve of red . . . an aggressive, brawling, warrior pink." Saint Laurent characterizes the woman herself--whom he dressed, revered, and borrowed from extensively--in even more harrowing ...
- Elsa Schiaparelli's `Shocking!' clothes are subject of new exhibit.
- Newspaper article from: The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) September 25, 2003 700+ words
...Carrie Rickey PHILADELPHIA _ Elsa Schiaparelli was scarcely 5 feet tall, looked...cubist and surrealist art, Schiaparelli was notorious for a 1937 hat...Shocking! The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli," curator Dilys Blum's dazzling...
- Elsa Schiaparelli's `Shocking!' clothes are subject of new exhibit.(Knight...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Rickey, Carrie September 29, 2003 700+ words
...Carrie Rickey PHILADELPHIA _ Elsa Schiaparelli was scarcely 5 feet tall, looked...cubist and surrealist art, Schiaparelli was notorious for a 1937 hat...Shocking! The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli," curator Dilys Blum's dazzling...
- Shock value: there was more to designer Elsa Schiaparelli than her wild whimsy,...
- Magazine article from: W Koski, Lorna October 1, 2003 700+ words
...puff-sleeved jackets. They're all wearing Schiaparelli. Elsa Schiaparelli was the most influential designer in Paris in...curator of "'Shocking!' The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli," at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which...
- FIT REMEMBERS PARIS PIONEERS.(Elsa Schiaparelli)
- Magazine article from: WWD Feitelberg, Rosemary February 25, 2004 700+ words
...crusade to dress the modern woman, Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli were as conflicted as they were accomplished. Amy...recent work was "Shocking! The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli" (Yale University Press, 2003) dissected each...
- Wicked in pink: an exhibition on one of the greatest of all couturiers, Elsa...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Miller, Sanda August 1, 2004 700+ words
Elsa Schiaparelli is not a name that automatically resonates with the high glamour associated...Philadelphia Museum of Art, both beneficiaries of generous donations from Elsa Schiaparelli, in 1969 and 1973 respectively. Consisting of some 250 items from...
- ELSA SCHIAPARELLI; THE ROMAN WHO WAS THE SENSATION OF PARIS THROUGH THE...
- Magazine article from: WWD Cuccio, Angela September 13, 1999 700+ words
...quality possible." Madame Elsa Schiaparelli, Paris couturiere noted for...a business capacity, Mme. Schiaparelli said she was very eager to observe...fashion convictions, Mme. Schiaparelli declares she intends to continue...
- Shockingly Schiaparelli.(Connoisseurs's World)(Philadelphia Museum of Art...
- Magazine article from: Town & Country Flamini, Roland September 1, 2003 700+ words
ELSA SCHIAPARELLI considered herself as much an artist...legacy. The show's more than 200 Schiaparelli dresses, coats, suits and accessories...also her friends. Born in Italy, Schiaparelli eventually moved to Paris, where...
- FASHION SCOOPS: SCHIAP REDUX?...BERTELLI VENTS...BIRKIN BEAUTY.(Tod's SpA deal...
- Magazine article from: WWD July 28, 2006 700+ words
...wear collection under the Elsa Schiaparelli name, but sources say the plans...to unload the rights to the Schiaparelli works because Della Valle and...year-old granddaughter of Elsa Schiaparelli. "She is a muse and an inspiration...