The conjunction of avant-garde fashion and surrealist absurdity in the late 1920s provided a necessary antidote to the utilitarian functionalism of the modernist movement. Its leading exponent was the Italian designer Elsa Schiaparelli (189-1973), who gained fame with her use of trompe l'oeil in showy knitwear.
Fashion design, as Schiaparelli liked to say, was not a profession for her, but simply a different form of artistic expression; she did not know how to sew and could barely draw.
Her first collection was launched in 1929 in her store on Rue de la Paix in Paris. She produced an entire collection in knitwear. An iconoclastic designer, Schiaparelli revolutionized the world of fashion.
Felps Miera
