Elsa Schiaparelli

Elsa Schiaparelli was born in 10Th of September in 1890 .As long aside Coco Chanel  her rival , Elsa was a fashion icon also in both worlds wars. Elsa was born at the Palazzo in Rome  her dad was the dean of a university in Rome and her mum was Neapolitan aristocrat so she was born in a well known family, she was also a niece of a man who discovered the canali of Mars.


The house of Schiaparelli shut down in 1954 December the very same year when Coco Chanel came back on the scene , at the age 64 Elsa wrote out a bio about her self  and lived in her house in Tunisia and Paris and sadly passed away in 1973 in novemeber Elsa was a well known and respected fashion designer that was big in the world war times.






Elsa studied philosophy at the University of Rome where her dad was the dean of.Elsa led a good life with luxury's especially when she had her parents that provided for her with there wealth and first class social status. Elsa removed her self from the luxury's and moved to New York and Paris as she thought the luxury was ruining her art and creativity.


on the way to London Elsa was invited to a dance in Paris having no dress to wear , she went of and brought a midnight blue fabric and started pinning it to fit her shape and body, while she was in London most of her time was spent looking round at museums and lectures she went of to marry one of the lectures a man called William de Wendt de Kerlor a Franco-Swiss theosophist and they moved to New York in 1921


when she was in Paris Elsa started making her own clothes and was encouraged by the famous designer Paul Poiret, Elsa grow up a company of her own but it sadly closed in 1926, after that she started to design knitwear and made a knitwear collection in the beginning of 1927 using a stitch that was made by american refuges. her very first design was featured in vogue and from then her company took off but only because of the pattern that gave the conclusion that there was a scarf wrapped round your neck.

Elsa's collection called Pour le Sport started expanding and making clothes such as swimming suits,ski clothes and linen dresses. The clothes she designed for tennis players shocked the public when it was worn by a women called Lili de Alvarez at Wimbledon playoffs in 1931 , Elsa expanded her clothes range even more by adding evening wear to it in 1931 and her company became stronger each time. Because of the war between Germany and France there was a spring collection called the trench which featured the colors brown and camouflage prints after the war between france and Germany in 1940 June 14Th Elsa went to New York and stayed there until the war was over from being away fro so long she had seen that the fashion had changed with the Christian Dior new style from the post war fashion.