In the annals of fashion, Schiaparelli is most associated with those extravagant surrealistic creations. The memorable upside-down shoe hat, the gown with a skeleton built into it, and the lobster ...

Elsa Schiaparelli (known for her 1937 lobster dress and high-heel shoe hat), and her friendships with artists like Salvador Dali, Jean Cocteau and Man Ray. But Roseberry took Schiaparelli’s ...

Some of what visitors will see: -Schiaparelli's cape in black silk velvet with an embroidered image of the Greek god Apollo from 1938-39; a "Shoe" hat, crafted with a cone heel, from 1937-38 ...

Schiaparelli made a hat that looked like a shoe, and another that was a leopard’s head, so that when she wore it, she seemed to be peering out from the animal’s maw. “Schiaparelli was almost ...

For spring 1937, declares an August headline in The Sun Times: “Schiaparelli Turns Shoes Into Hats and Uses Birds and Musical Instruments to Fasten Frocks.” The hat is the brainchild of Dali ...

Schiaparelli’s sweater came with a trompe ... such as the infamous shoe hat of 1937. What attracts the modern eye is not the fit of the sweater but the way it flirts with the eye, tying the ...

Marco Ovando . . . and a headpiece by Daniel Roseberry, paying tribute to the original shoe hat by Elsa Schiaparelli There was always a febrile aspect to this relationship: the Surrealists ...

Andie MacDowell made her mark on Tuesday afternoon in a full look from Schiaparelli ready-to-wear by Daniel Roseberry, ahead ...

became a main pillar of Schiaparelli’s work. She would close jackets with metal buttons in the shape of circus performers, and design seasonal prints, embroideries, and witty accessories, such as the ...