Hard-Edged Chic
Rosemary Hill
- Shocking! The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli by Dilys Blum
Yale/Philadelphia Museum of Art, 320 pp, £45.00, November 2003, ISBN 0 300 10066 3
The second child of Maria-Luisa and Celestino Schiaparelli would, it was hoped, be a boy. When, instead, another daughter was born in September 1890, they were at a loss as to what to call her. At the last minute they christened her after her German nurse, Elsa. This ‘Wagnerian’ name displeased the little girl. It was, she recalled, her ‘first disappointment’ and she was not prepared to accept it: ‘The struggle had begun.’
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[*] The Schiaparelli exhibition will be at the Musée de la Mode et du Textile in Paris from 17 March until 29 August.