{"id":19736,"date":"2022-08-24T16:34:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T14:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colleensparis.com\/?p=19736"},"modified":"2022-09-12T18:29:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:29:38","slug":"shocking-surrealist-schiaparelli-at-mad-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/2022\/08\/shocking-surrealist-schiaparelli-at-mad-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking! Surrealist Schiaparelli at MAD – Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When is a fashion house a walking art gallery?\u00a0When your audacious mentor is fashion designer, Paul Poiret, and two of your contemporary artist friends are surrealists, Man Ray and Salvador Dali. When you walk up the stairs of the Mus\u00e9e des Arts d\u00e9coratifs (MAD) toward the rays of sunshine, prepare yourself to be transported into a world of design in the shocking surrealist Schiaparelli show at MAD.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0pink\u00a0jacket\u00a0with those sun rays\u00a0greets you as you open the exhibition\u2019s door. Welcome to the Elsa Schiaparelli retrospective, the first in 20 years.\u00a0Shocking! The surreal world of Elsa Schiaparelli\u00a0(Shocking! Les mondes surr\u00e9alistes d\u2019Elsa Schiaparelli\u00a0<\/em>) continues\u00a0until January 22, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Admiring the multitude of form-fitting jackets I\u00a0asked\u00a0myself, \u201cto\u00a0which tea or garden party or soir\u00e9e would I have worn this?\u201d\u00a0A working girl\u2019s imagination must have whisked her\u00a0away to another planet\u00a0if she was reading Vogue\u00a0or Harper\u2019s Bazaar in the 1930s and looking at photographs of Elsa Schiaparelli\u2019s surrealist fashion art.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What You Will See<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Certain\u00a0contemporary couture designers who turned their fashion into art,\u00a0were inspired by the Italian-born\u00a0Elsa Schiaparelli’s creative designs. Those inspirations are\u00a0interspersed\u00a0on two floors of the MAD building\u00a0among the\u00a0520 works\u00a0and 272 silhouettes and accessories designed by Schiaparelli.\u00a0They\u00a0are displayed alongside iconic paintings, sculptures, jewelry, perfumes, ceramics, posters, and photographs by the likes of Schiaparelli\u2019s Surrealist friends and contemporaries: Man Ray, Salvador Dal\u00ed, Jean Cocteau, Meret Oppenheim, Elsa Triolet and Alberto Giacometti.\u00a0Elsa Triolet designed\u00a0jewelry\u00a0and Alberto Giacometti\u00a0buttons for her collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elsa Schiaparelli highlighted themes for her collections rather than the name of the season, for example, the Circus, \u201ccommedia dell\u2019arte,\u201d Astrological, Pagan and Butterfly Collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A detailed version of the exhibition with numerous photos in the press kit<\/a> is available in the MAD press section. If you are unable to download the press kit, email me at info@colleensparis.com<\/a> and I will share the pdf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elsa\u00a0Schiaparelli designed the costumes for Mae West in the film \u201cEvery day\u2019s a Holiday\u201d (1937). The plaster model with the actress\u2019s exact measurements was sent to the Schiaparelli studio.\u00a0The\u00a0model of Mae West\u2019s silhouette would inspire the form of the Shocking perfume bottle.\u00a0An excerpt of this film and others with Schiaparelli’s costumes are toward the end of the exhibit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an Art\u00e9\u00a0interview<\/a>, Jean-Paul Gaultier said he was inspired by Schiaparelli\u2019s model for his scent collection. Her designs were\u00a0also\u00a0interpreted by and inspired the creations of Yves Saint Laurent, Azzedine Ala\u00efa, John Galliano and Christian Lacroix, some of which are on display at the Mus\u00e9e des Arts d\u00e9coratifs exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To read all the captions of the photos below, click on the circled \u201ci\u201d for more information when you open the photo gallery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Definitely plan more than two hours for this exhibit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Horst<\/a><\/figure><\/div>
\"Cape,<\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
\"Gloves<\/a><\/figure>
\"Image<\/a><\/figure><\/div>
\"Mae<\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
\"Shoe<\/a><\/figure><\/div>
\"Leonor<\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
\"Les<\/a><\/figure><\/div>
\"Nusch<\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
\"Andr\u00e9<\/a><\/figure><\/div>
\"Shoe<\/a><\/figure>
\"Apron<\/a><\/figure><\/div>
\"Apron<\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
\"Buttons<\/a><\/figure><\/div>
\"Cocteau<\/a><\/figure>
\"Zodiac<\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
\"\u00a9RMN-Gestion<\/a><\/figure><\/div>
\"Bol\u00e9ro,<\/a><\/figure><\/div>
\"Stairs<\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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