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EXPLAINED: Elsa schiaparelli - The Real Truth

A surrealist fashionista, a Nazi fantasist and the return of Atwood’s Handmaids – what to see, read and watch this week

In the bustling Aberdeenshire town of Braemar, close to the late Queen’s beloved Balmoral, there’s a rather chi-chi hotel called the Fife Arms. Originally a stout stone Victorian building for tweedy country types, it is now a fabulous art-filled mecca of maximalism, attracting celebrities and wealthy Londoners looking for a…

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Fashion Becomes Art: a deliciously decadent journey through the surrealist world of Elsa Schiaparelli

“Nobody has been able to pronounce my name properly … but everybody knows what it means,” Elsa Schiaparelli once said, with typical self-assuredness.

The Conversation

You Won't Believe What These 12 Vintage Luxury Fashion Pieces Are Worth at Auction Today

From Schiaparelli surrealist couture to the original Hermes Birkin, explore 12 collectible designer items in vintage luxury fashion worth millions.

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Schiaparelli: Inside the world of the ‘ugly’ designer who rivalled Chanel

EXHIBITION: Despite being one of the most pioneering designers of her generation, Elsa Schiaparelli never became a household name like Christian Dior or her rival, Coco Chanel. A new exhibition at the V&A – and a star-studded awards season – is about to change that, says Lydia Spencer-Elliott

The Independent UK

The V&A’s Schiaparelli exhibition is a surrealist delight

A-list gowns, a good dose of Dalí and some frankly extraordinary buttons: ‘Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art’ shows fashion’s power to shape culture

Evening Standard

Lobsters and red carpet gowns: A new show celebrates Schiaparelli's surrealist fashion

The Victoria and Albert Museum is opening a new exhibition celebrating how the fashion house Schiaparelli turns fashion into surreal art

The Independent UK

Schiaparelli review – it’s cocktail o’clock with fashion’s surreal goddess who out-lobstered Dalí and turned a polar bear pink

The Italian designer loved to shock and this dazzling show is like sashaying through a party in 1930s Paris with Schiap and her darling friends Cocteau and Dalí

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New V&A exhibition explores how Elsa Schiaparelli dressed ‘the most masculine city’ in Britain

From Ariana Grande’s Oscars gowns to surrealist collaborations with Salvador Dalí, this new exhibition traces how Schiaparelli redefined fashion.

The Independent UK

Artist, impresario, couturier: V&A to stage Schiaparelli retrospective

Exhibition at Victoria and Albert Museum celebrates Italian designer’s moment-making approach to fashion

The Guardian - UK

The 12 London exhibitions you have to see in 2026

Lucien Freud, Tracey Emin, Marilyn Monroe, Anish Kapoor, Frida Kahlo, Es Devlin and Kate Moss are making it a star-filled year in art

Evening Standard

Tove, Frida and Schiaparelli: The 10 unmissable exhibitions and art events of 2026

Next year brings blockbuster shows from the Venice Biennale to a Frida Kahlo retrospective, plus the Middle East's most exciting new art fair.

Euronews

‘Fashion exposes people’s desires and anxieties’: how much do we really reveal when we get dressed?

A new exhibition – with contributions from Chanel, McQueen and Galliano – places 100 looks under the psychoanalytic lens, and suggests that what we wear is the result of a battle in the psyche

The Guardian - UK

Sarah Burton turns up the glamour volume at Givenchy in Paris

Spiritual home of Audrey Hepburn re-establishes itself as serious player in red carpet dressing

The Guardian - UK

Fashion meets Freud. A new exhibit explores clothes through a psychoanalytic lens

A new exhibit at The Museum at FIT in New York City explores fashion through the lens of psychoanalysis

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V&A announces first UK exhibition devoted to haute couture house Schiaparelli

Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art will comprise more than 200 objects including garments, accessories, jewellery and paintings.

Wallpaper

Haute Couture Week A/W 2025: live updates from the Wallpaper* team

From 7-9 July, Haute Couture Week A/W 2025 arrives in Paris. Follow along for a first look at the shows, presentations and other fashion happenings, as seen by the Wallpaper* editors

Wallpaper

The best shows of Haute Couture Week A/W 2025

From Chanel’s trip to the great outdoors, to an Armani Privé collection that was rooted in the colour black

The Guardian - UK

Schiaparelli has celebrities in its sights with buzzy war-inspired futurism

Brand culls signature corseted silhouettes for shorter bustiers in effort to ‘keep pushing forward’

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The Independent UK

Paris couture week opens with Cardi B holding a live crow at Schiaparelli’s spectacle

Paris Couture Week begins with a striking moment as Cardi B appears in a custom Schiaparelli gown, holding a live crow

Marie Claire

Fashion's Embroidery Renaissance Is Stitching Fresh Life Into a Centuries-Old Art Form

Tracing the gilded thread from ancient Egypt and Tudor courts to the Spring ’25 runways.

Marie Claire

Schiaparelli's Autumn/Winter 2025 collection blends surrealist motifs with wearable elegance

Inspired by the women in Daniel Roseberry's life

Marie Claire

The best shows from Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2025 Fashion Week so far

We've been dazzled by Schiaparelli, Dior and more

The Independent UK

Kendall Jenner walks in Schiaparelli’s Paris Haute Couture show

The Italian label kicked off Paris Haute Couture week with an ode to Fifties femininity.

Marie Claire

Jill Biden Re-Wears a Custom Schiaparelli Suit for One of Her Final White House Events as First Lady

She's re-worn this red suit on several occasions.

The Guardian - UK

I can’t believe it’s not denim: how fashion fell in love with fake jeans

Jeans are practical and classic, but can be stiff and restrictive. Could ‘optical illusion’ fashion be the bridge between style and comfort? Plus: where to find sensible pants.

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