Elsa Schiaparelli Essays

  • Elsa Schiaparelli: The "Poor" Fashion Designer

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    Elsa Schiaparelli, an extremely talented, Italian fashion designer, gave beautiful, curvy women a perfect glow with her shocking pink and ice-cold blue dresses. Schiaparelli’s name remains unknown to the world while a large amount of her overrated competitors receive much credit for little effort. Schiaparelli strived for success through her new inventions, her film wardrobes, her irresistible perfumes, and her unique dresses while still being placed at the bottom of the fashion totem pole. Schiaparelli

  • Elsa Schiaparelli And Anthropomorphic Chest Of Drawers By Salvador Dali

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    necessary to look deeper into the work of two outstanding artists strongly connected with this movement, and for whom this style was an integral part of their lives. This essay's primary objective is to look closer at Desk Suit , 1936, by Elsa Schiaparelli and compare it to Anthropomorphic Chest of Drawers, 1936, by Salvador Dali. These two pieces of art although so different, have a lot in common. To find out more and explore the world of surrealism, it will be

  • Surrealism Comparison of Elsa Schiaparelli's Desk Suit and Salvador Dali's Anthromorphic Chest of Drawer

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    This essay's primary objective is to look closer and compare Desk Suit 1936 by Elsa Schiaparelli to Anthropomorphic Chest of Drawers, 1936 by Salvador Dali. These two pieces of art although so different, have a lot in common. To find out more and explore the world of surrealism, it will be worth studying and reviewing each art work based on the information found in several books about Salvador Dali and Elsa Schiaparelli as well as in other sources, such as You tube, journals, articles and web sites

  • Fashion, And Chanel's Impact On Fashion And Society

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    What is fashion and what importance does it have in people’s life? Is it hard to create fashion and who are those people who manage people’s mind and declare what is fashionable and what is not? Fashion started when people began to wear clothes. It was between 100,000 to 500,000 years ago. The way how people dressed indicated social status. Because of this fact fashion trends was established by royalty. In the 20th century when movie industry started to develop quickly, people began to watch how

  • The Surrealist Movement in Art's Influence on Fashion

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    art has influenced the progress and growth of fashion worldwide and our sense of appearance. Furthermore, this essay will analyse the influence that surrealism has been having on fashion today. I will also be discussing the influence that Elsa Schiaparelli has been having on the distinct creation of surrealism in fashion, focusing specifically on how she became the leading figure in merging art with fashion by introducing surrealist ideas in her designs. Also her collaborations with artists such

  • Late 1800s And Early 1900s: A Brief History Of Fashion Artists

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    fashion illustration that was flat with shadowing and characterless faces. Also, most models posing in the illustration were simple. There were notable fashion illustrators: Coco Chanel, Dior, Alfredo Boiret, Jeanne Lanvin, Madeleine Vionnet, Elsa Schiaparelli, Hardy

  • History of Fashion

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    Fashion was culturally formed, and there is a close relationship between art and fashion. The first designer who had his label sewn into a garment he created was Charles Frederick Worth (1825-1895). In the 1840s, adult women adopted a variation on girls' pantalettes as an undergarment. (Toccata: March 2010 toccatamundi.blogspot.com Pantalettes, sometimes indicated major transitions in a girl's life signifying the going forward from infant to schoolgirl. From 1350 to mid 1500s, real fashion started

  • Hubert De Givenchy Research Paper

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    Hubert de Givenchy (1927- ) Every culture and religion has its own style of fashion that sets them apart. Fashion plays a remarkable role in, not only culture and religion, but also identifying personalities, beliefs and thoughts. A leading country that is well-known for its fashion design would be France. “The French were the first to make an industry out of fashion since the 17th century.” There are many French designers from the fashion leading capital, Paris. Those designers would be Chanel

  • Haute Couture Influences Ready-to-wear

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    Fashion has been around ever since ancient times, since the time of the Romans, it survived the world wars and is yet today a business with rapid changes. Fashion started off as an art form, a way for the riches to show their social status with unique and innovative designs that only they could afford. It was a way to separate the social classes of the society. In this paper I will include the creator of haute couture, and how the following designers developed couture, as well as having leading names

  • Diana Vreeland Analysis

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    feature designers, models, and celebrities inspired by Vreeland, such as Cecil Beaton, Marisa Berenson, Truman Capote, Carmen, Coco Chanel, Christian Dior, Hubert de Givenchy, Lauren Hutton, Jackie Kennedy, Yves Saint Laurent, Oscar de la Renta, Elsa Schiaparelli, Andy Warhol, and Elsie de Wolfe. The beginning of the book introduces Diana Dalziel, a privileged yet insecure debutante growing up in New York City during the Gilded Age. Young Diana, dissatisfied with her homely appearance, set out on a mission

  • Yves Saint Laurent Analysis

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    garments, through the identity of the style that he created; a style that is, still to this day, fresh, shocking, empowering and mesmerizing. Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent was born on the 1st of August in 1936, just a wear before legendary Elsa Schiaparelli show her groundbreaking ‘Autumn 1937’ Collection, in Oran, Algeria, to a prestigious and

  • Hubert de Givenchy

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    Exposition. Once looking through Vogue magazine, he was inspired by Balenciaga men’s wear. He wanted to be a couturier and attended Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, to start a formal education in fashion. His designing inspirations came from Elsa Schiaparelli and Madam Gres’s work. His experience also came from working at the House of Piguet in Paris; this salon was known for its dramatic yet simple style and after, at the House of Lelong that was known for their high quality clothing. Those positions

  • The Zipper

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    The zipper is a very common fastener used to secure all kinds of things, especially clothing. But the zipper wasn't always around. Before the zipper was invented, buttons were used in fastening clothes, and so were hooks and eyes that had to be fastened manually. When the zipper first came out, it was somewhat of an oddity; it wasn't widely accepted. But slowly, more and more people started noticing its convenient applications, and soon it could be seen everywhere. The zipper started off as a novelty

  • Fashion

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    Why I Chose this Topic Sparkly tops, cozy pants; we never know where they come from. Maybe a kid made them under horrible conditions, you never know. My mom used to buy a lot of Gap clothes, but during 2005 she stopped. I was little so I didn’t understand, but my oldest sister did. Some rumors were going around that Gap made kids work. They forced them to produce clothing , only gaining one cent per month, they were paid less than adults. Kids were sewing and packaging the clothes. When my sister

  • Biography of Salvador Dali

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    Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali i Domenech, Marquis of Dali de Puebol was born on May 11, 1904 in Spain. His father, Salvador Dali y Cusi, was a middle class lawyer and a notary. His father was very strict with raising his children. On the other hand his mother, Felipa Domenech Ferres allowed Salvador more freedom to express himself however he wanted, we can see this in his art and how eccentric he was throughout his life. Salvador was a bright and intelligent child, and often known to have

  • Renaissance Influence on Modern Day Fashion

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    Many people would not believe that there are so many similarities between modern day fashion and the fashion of the renaissance time period. Many differences may be seen between the two, but the similarities are remarkable. Throughout all of time, clothing has been the major representation of social classes. What people wear has always been the distinguishing factor between the wealthy and the poor classes of both the renaissance and current time period. The evolution from time period to time period

  • Influences in the Fashion Choices of Women in the 1920's and 30's

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    How were young women of all classes dressing to be modern in the nightclubs and dance halls of the 1920s and 1930s? Focusing on the middle-classes, yet considering women of both the upper and working classes, discuss what were the influences in their fashion choices. Use specific examples of garments drawn from primary sources such as clothing from the University teaching collection and garments from other valid museum websites. (e.g. V&A, London; Metropolitan Museum, New York; Kyoto Institute,

  • Chanel And Natalia Goncharova

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    Living in a world without innovators and history would create boredom. With boredom we would not have the great designers and artists we are fortunate to have. Chanel being one of the greatest and most famous designers, she created the wearable jersey knit in her every day garments and Natalia Goncharova famous for her originality of Rayonism, a way of painting and expressing ones spiritual beliefs through vibrant colors. These two women have an outstanding place in history creating a more radical

  • Fragrances

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    Fragrance is a big industry which purpose has evolved through out many decades. According to Los Angeles Times, in the United States it is a $3.7- billion industry where women are the biggest consumer. Studies have shown that in average people apply 12 different aroma products a day. Today the scent is made to last for a very long time and it’s made with chemicals that create this pleasant aroma. Back in the history the main purpose of fragrance was to attract one person to another. However, now