Hang Onto Your Shoe-Hats: The Life and Times of Elsa Schiaparelli
Update: 2025-11-24
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Elsa “Schiap” Schiaparelli was the enfant terrible of the 1930s Paris couture scene. Still, after World War II, she fell into relative obscurity, only to have her name and legacy revived nearly a century later. Who was this singular artist? Why did she fall off the map, and what can it tell us about the politics of women’s fashion? We look to her 1954 memoir, Shocking Life, for answers. Spoiler alert: she’s a very unreliable narrator.
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