Elsa Schiaparelli didn’t invent fashion, but she may have been the first designer to convince the world that a dress could belong in a gallery as comfortably as it belonged in a wardrobe. At a time when haute couture celebrated elegance above all else, the Italian couturière introduced surrealism, symbolism, humour, wit, and artistic collaboration into clothing, transforming garments from objects of beauty into expressions of ideas, just like a canvas. Read More …