The Brand Is French, But the Woman Is Italian In 1890, Elsa Luisa Maria Schiaparelli was born in ... and Listen” newspaper print range and 1938 “Circus” line-up), worked with legendary ...

On Jan. 27, the sun was covered by dense, gray clouds outside the Petit Palais in Paris, where the Italian haute couture ...

Courtesy of Schiaparelli Some of those very same ribbons found their way into Schiaparelli’s collection ... the Surrealist signatures of Elsa Schiaparelli herself into his collections since ...

Look number 6 in the Schiaparelli Spring Summer 2025 Haute Couture show in Paris. The designer pushed the collection toward ... a sense of freedom he felt Elsa Schiaparelli had in her designs.

The collection embodied themes of risk-taking ... This theme also paid homage to Elsa Schiaparelli, herself a visionary risk-taker who revolutionized fashion by subverting traditional norms.

Read more of Schiaparelli’s fascinating story ahead, where InStyle has gathered a crib sheet of key facts about her personal and professional life. In 1890, Elsa Luisa Maria Schiaparelli was ...