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A Little Pink History Won't Hurt You
Elsa Schiaparelli (Sept. 10 1890 –Nov. 13 1973) was the leading Parisian fashion designer of the 1920s and 30s after Coco Chanel. She was a great-niece of Giovanni Schiaparelli , who discovered the canals of Mars. She had a flair for the unusual and even hired Salvador Dali to design fabric, producing a white dress with a lobster print. Schiaparelli was the first to use sholder pads, hot pink (calling it shocking pink, in 1947) animal print fabrics, and zippers dyed the same colors as the fabrics. She is also well known for her surrealist designs of the 1930's, especially her hats, including one resembling a giant shoe, and one a giant lamb chop, both which were famously worn by the Franco-American Singer sewing machine heiress Daisy Fellows, who was one of Schiaparelli's best clients and who owned a pink gemstone that inspired the color shocking pink. She collaborated with many surrealist artists, Dalí, Cocteau, and Giacametti, between 1936 and 1939. Schiaparelli would have loved Pinky Diablo.
Elsa Schiaparelli (Sept. 10 1890 –Nov. 13 1973) was the leading Parisian fashion designer of the 1920s and 30s after Coco Chanel. She was a great-niece of Giovanni Schiaparelli , who discovered the canals of Mars. She had a flair for the unusual and even hired Salvador Dali to design fabric, producing a white dress with a lobster print. Schiaparelli was the first to use sholder pads, hot pink (calling it shocking pink, in 1947) animal print fabrics, and zippers dyed the same colors as the fabrics. She is also well known for her surrealist designs of the 1930's, especially her hats, including one resembling a giant shoe, and one a giant lamb chop, both which were famously worn by the Franco-American Singer sewing machine heiress Daisy Fellows, who was one of Schiaparelli's best clients and who owned a pink gemstone that inspired the color shocking pink. She collaborated with many surrealist artists, Dalí, Cocteau, and Giacametti, between 1936 and 1939. Schiaparelli would have loved Pinky Diablo.
