Schiaparelli Haute Couture as featured in Scala Regia #2

Photographed by Dorothée Murail at Hôtel de Lauzun, Paris,

Oriental Fever

High Profile

We Are Family

Elsa on Casati:

"Tall and gaunt with heavily made-up eyes, she represented a past age of splendour when a few beautiful and wealthy women adopted an almost brutally individualistic way of living and presenting themselfes to the public."

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by Elsa Schiaparelli

Party People

À Maniére de Elsa

Masteress

Magister Dixit

"The women I have most pleasure in dressing are those who, like the Duchess of Windsor, bring their husbands!"

by Elsa Schiaparelli

Barbie Attitude

"She alone could have given to a pink the nerve of a red ... ...a neon pink an unreal pink ... Shocking Pink!"

By Yves Saint Laurent

Magister Dixit

"What would I like to be in another life? ...as if that could happen!"

by Elsa Schiaparelli

Party People

Paris, 1939...

...Elsie Invites...

Elsie de Wolfe (Lady Mendl) chating with Princess Baba de Faucigny-Lucinge

Mme. Wellington Koo

Aimée de Heeren (left)

Elsa Maxwell (centre)

Elsa Schiaparelli (right)

Countess Mona von Bismarck (seated)

Cecil Beaton

Magister Dixit

"Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress."

by Elsa Schiaparelli

On Fashion:

“In difficult times fashion is always outrageous.”

-  Elsa Schiaparelli

Good Girls

Good Girls