Artifact 1

            
                                          Lobster Dress

This dress is made from printed silk organza and synthetic horsehair.  I designed this dress in collaboration with Salvador Dalí.  He designed the lobster on the dress and I designed the dress. This dress was part of my Summer/Fall 1937 Collection.   It was famously worn by Wallis Warfield Simpson.

Artifact 2

                               
                                             Schiaparelli Gloves

I was inspired to create these gloves from one of Picasso's paintings.  The painting had hands that looked like gloves.  I was inspired to flip-flop the concept and create a pair of gloves to look like hands. I also created gloves with metal talons.   I have used hands in many of my other designs.  

Artifact 3

                                     
                                          The Tears Dress

This was a slender pale blue evening gown and worn with a thigh-length veil. On it is printed with a Dalí design.  The design is intended to give the illusion of torn animal flesh.  The tears printed to represent fur on the reverse of the fabric.  It is part of the February 1938 Circus Collection.

Artifact 4

                   The Shoe Hat

This hat was a collaboration with Salvador Dali.  Who was a surrealist artist.   The idea came from a photograph taken by Dali's wife Gala, showing the artist wearing a woman's shoe on his head and another one on his shoulder. The hat is shaped like a woman’s high-heeled shoe.  It was made to wear with a black dress and jacket embroidered with red lips.  It has the heel standing straight up and the toe tilted over the wearer’s forehead. 

Artifact 5

                      Shocking de Schiaparelli Perfume

Although I was making money from dressmaking I decided to go in to the perfume business.  It was actually far more profitable.  There were many people who could never aspire to one of my dresses bought my perfumes.  The bottle is in the shape of a woman's torso inspired by Mae West's tailor's dummy and Dalí paintings of flower-sellers.  The box is in Shocking pink my signature color.

Artifact 6

                       Necklace of Metal Insects

This necklace has metal insects mounted on clear plastic.  The idea of this necklace was to create the illusion of insects crawling on the neck.  I have incorporated insects in some of my other designs.  This is one of my many original ideas.  My people had never seen a design like this before.  It was new and different and I think is scared some people.  

Artifact 7

                                     Knitted Sweaters

These sweaters were some of my first designs.  They were first shown in the French Vogue.  They were an instant hit. These sweaters pretty much made me what I am today.  Without I would have never been such a successful designer.

Artifact 8

                                 Evening Dress

 This gown is made from white organza and has gloves embroidered in metallic threads.  On the gloves and dress there are musical-score notes. It is accessorized with a belt that contains a working music box in the buckle.  It was part of the  fall,1939 collection.  The collections theme was music.  

Artifact 9

                       Time Magazine

I was the first female fashion designer to be on the cover of Time magazine.  It was quite an honor.  It was published in 1934.  The article presents me as “one of the arbiters of ultra-modern Haute Couture”.  

Artifact 10

                                  Home of Elsa Schiaparelli

This was the house I lived in in Paris.  It was a rather large apartment.
The chair I am sitting on is one of my favorites.  There were quite a few photo shoots done here in many apartment.  The most famous one had the model in the very chair I am sitting in.

Artifact 11

                                                                Evening Dress

The dress was worn by the Duchess of Devonshire. In this dress I incorporated my famous Shocking pink color, which I toned down with an overlay of white organza.  It is made from silk and has machine embroidered organza and cotton. With velveteen appliqué, and an underdress of silk.  

Artifact 12

   

           Sleeping de Schiaparelli           and            Le Roy Soleil ("Ray of Sun")

These are two more of my famous perfumes.  Sleeping de Schiaparelli was created to mirror a candle.  We sold it as a night perfume, it was meant to be put on before falling into bed.  The turquoise blue of the packaging was also a new color called Sleeping blue.  Le Roy Soleil was a perfume bottle designed by  Salvador Dali in 1946 to celebrate the end of WWII.  

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