In her autobiography, Schiaparelli wrote of being an “ugly” child who planted seeds in her throat, ears and mouth, in hopes of growing “a face covered with flowers like a heavenly garden ...

Elsa Schiaparelli was an Italian fashion designer. Born in Rome in 1890 to an aristocrat mother and scholar father, she went on to study philosophy at the University of Rome before publishing a book ...

Among the many remarkable aspects of designer Elsa Schiaparelli's remarkable life — she became a world-famous couturier without knowing how to sew, collaborated on sartorial projects with ...

In 1890, Elsa Luisa Maria Schiaparelli was born in Rome as the youngest of two girls. According to a 1930 New Yorker profile on the designer, ...

She would later describe how, as a youth, she had stuffed flower seeds into her ears, ... In the pink: the colourful life of Elsa Schiaparelli. 1890 Elsa Schiaparelli born September 10 in Rome.

Italian designer Elsa Schiaparelli had a real knack for dreaming up things women didn’t know they wanted to wear. Read more of Schiaparelli’s fascinating story ahead, where InStyle has ...

Laura Jacobs reviews “Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography” by Meryle Secrest. Elsa Schiaparelli embodied French fashion, turning women into witty totems of transformation and escape. Skip to Main ...

If Elsa Schiaparelli is remembered at all outside the world of fashion, it is usually for her signature hue of shocking pink, or her once-famous perfume, Shocking de Schiaparelli, launched in 1937 ...