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Schiaparelli's trademark. A black sweater with a white trompe

l'oeil scarf at the neck was a particular success and was selected

to appear in French Vogue. Demand for the sweater became

huge and Schiaparelli soon employed a team of workers to produce

more, signalling the start of her own business. This lead to

Schiaparelli opening her first shop, House of Schiaparelli, where

she sold her ready-to-wear clothing.

• Progressing from her debut range of sweaters, Schiaparellli produced a collection named Pour le Sport - consisting of bathing suits, skiwear and linen dresses. She also created the revolutionary divided skirt, a forerunner of shorts, which was worn by Lili de Alvarez at Wimbledon in 1931 and shocked the tennis world.
• In 1931, Schiaparelli added eveningwear to her repertoire, strengthening her business further. In the same year she relocated her shop to 21 Place Vendome, where it became known as Schiap Shop.
• She became well-known for her collaborations with artists such as Salvador Dali, and the outrageous, original designs they created together. Two of
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  The Life of Elsa Schiaparelli

  Her reputation was such that she became the first female fashion designer to be featured on the cover of the American magazine Time in 1934. From the outset, Elsa and her designs for women with a strong and independent personality attracted famous customers: Wallis Simpson, the future Duchess of Windsor (whose tousseau would bear the Schiaparelli label), Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn, Greta Garbo, Lauren Bacall, Gene Tierney, Gala Dali, Marie-Laure de Noailles, Daisy Fellowes, Nusch Eluard (who wore Schiaparelli for her portrait by Pablo Picasso), Arletty, Vivien Leigh, Ginger Rogers, Juliette Gréco, Mae West (for whom she designed the wardrobe of one of her films), to name just a few.

  From the outset, Elsa and her designs
  for women with a strong and independent personality attracted famous customers: Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn, Lauren Bacall …

  In 1932, the Couture House, which had become “Schiaparelli - Pour le Sport, Pour la Ville, Pour le Soir” (Schiaparelli – Sportswear, City and Evening Wear), spanned several floors and inclu

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  Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography

  Her name was Elsa Schiaparelli. She was known as the Queen of Fashion; a headline attraction in the international glitter-glamour show of the late twenties and thirties, feted in Rome (where she was born), Paris, New York, London, Moscow, Hollywood . . .
  
  Her style was a social revolution through clothing--luxurious, eccentric, ironic, sexy. Her fashions, inspired, from the whimsical to the most practical--from a Venetian cape of the commedia dell''arte to the Soviet parachute. She collaborated with some of the greatest artists of the twentieth century: on jewelry designs with Jean Schlumberger; on clothes with Salvador Dalí (his lobster dress for her, a lobster garnished with parsley painted on the skirt of an organdy dress, was instantly bought by Wallis Simpson for her honeymoon with the Duke of Windsor); with Jean Cocteau, Alberto Giacometti, Christian Bérard, photographers Baron Adolph de Meyer, Horst, Cecil Beaton, and the young Richard Avedon.
  
  She was the first designer to use rayon and latex, thick velvets, transparent and waterpr