A brightly colored, embroidered evening jacket from Schiaparelli’s Fall-Winter 1938-1939 collection.
I love the pintucks on the shoulders.
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A “shocking pink” dress and dinner jacket with sequined sleeves, Schiaparelli, 1938.
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A bib necklace of multi-colored silk rosebuds, Schiaparelli, 1938.
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Gloves covering up your fashionably painted nails? Well here’s Elsa Schiaparelli’s solution from her Winter 1936-1937 collection!
Interestingly enough, Elizabeth Banks, who plays Effie Trinket in the The Hunger Games, was jokingly presented with a similar pair of gloves on Ellen after mentioning what a pain her fake nails were while filming. I wonder if the people on the show realized the Schiaparelli connection?
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An exquisite velvet evening gown by Schiaparelli, 1934-1935.
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Insects were a reoccurring theme in Schiaparelli’s work, and featured especially in her Fall-Winter 1938 “Pagan Collection”.
This unusual necklace is from this collection. It plays with the rather icky idea of bugs crawling on your skin and makes it fashionable.
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A Schiaparelli belt featuring a beautiful blue fleur-de-lis, 1936-1937.
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This admittedly odd ocelot fur coat and hat was a part of Schiaparelli’s Fall-Winter 1938-1939 collection.
The ensemble was used, and somewhat parodied, in Inglorious Basterds, where a version of it was worn by Julie Dreyfus’ character Francesca Mondino.
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A breathtakingly sequined velvet evening cape entitled “Apollo of Versailles”, Schiaparelli, 1938.
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“The Shoe Hat” was the result of another Schiaparlli-Dalí collaboration. Inspired by a photograph of Dalí balancing a shoe on his head, Schiaparelli featured the Shoe Hat in her Fall-Winter 1937-38 collection.
