ABOUT OUR COLLECTIONS

Dear visitors,

For the first time in the history of the Palais Galliera, our new galleries located on the garden level offer you a unique look at the history of fashion, from the 18th century to the present day, through a renewed tour of our collections.

Evening gown, Schiaparelli

Worn by Carina Lau at the amFAR gala in Hong Kong on March 24, 2015

Schiaparelli
Embroidered label in satin embroidered, shocking pink on ivory: "Schiaparelli / ETE 2015"
Haute couture, spring-summer 2015
Bias-cut pink silk satin; embroidered with claw-set crystals, black droplets, variously shaped mirrors made of crystal strass and glass beads; black laminated velvet
GAL2016.16.1
Schiaparelli donation – Vogue Paris Foundation 2015
Palais Galliera, musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris

Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) founded her fashion house in 1927 in Paris. Close to the artists Salvador Dali and Jean Cocteau, she created a surrealist game with clothing. His first creations were trompe-l'oeil tie sweaters. She also gives to the back a new place thanks to bare backs and overturned clothes or patterns, worn back to front.

In 2012, Schiaparelli relaunched the Italian seamstress's signature by creating this evening dress with a necklace of trompe-l'oeil embroidered crystals that two hand shadows close on the neck.