ELSA SCHIAPARELLI: THE FASHION WORLD THROUGH HER LENS
1. Schiaparelli: from Rome to Paris with love Elsa Schiaparelli (Rome, 1890 – Paris, 1973) – or Schiap as she called herself in the third person – was born into a family of Piedmontese intellectuals. Her father was a translator of Arabic poets and director of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, while her mother was…