Evening gown, Schiaparelli

• 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.