August, 3rd, 2015

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CELESTIAL SILHOUETTE
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At the age of 22, @ElsaSchiaparelli was invited to #Engl and to work as a nanny and she gratefully accepted the position. On the way, she s topped in #Paris where she was enchanted by the city’s style, its powerful women and its avant-garde attitudes. While there, she was invited to attend a ball. #Schiaparelli had never been to a ball nor did she own any gowns so she bought some dark blue fabric from a department s tore which she draped and pinned around her body. After ten days in #Paris, she moved on to #Lon don where she spent much of her free time visiting museums, attending operas and lectures. Elsa was spellbound by one particular lecturer, #WilhelmWendtdeKerlor, as he spoke of magic, eternal life and the power of the soul over the body. She met him after the lecture and the two were married a year later. By 1921, Elsa’s husb and had become very successful as a lecturer and the couple relocated to New York. Elsa was immediately impressed by the modernity of #NewYork and was struck by the status of American women, who played tennis and golf, drove cars and wore corsetless garments. Her husb and, however, was not as impressed. By the time Elsa gave birth to her only child, her husb and had ab doned his family and she was left to care for Maria Luisa Yvonne Radha on her own. Her daughter’s doc tor took pity on Elsa, who at this point was living in a cheap hotel, and put her in touch with #GabyPicabia, ex-wife of #FrancisPicabia. Gaby had moved to New York to start a business selling clothes designed in Paris and she was struggling to build a clientele. Elsa began working for Gaby and eventually made the acquaintance of #MarcelDuchamp, #MayRay and #AlfredStieglitz. Needing a dress for a society ball back in #Paris, Gaby asked Elsa to design one for her. The dress was seen by #PaulPoiret, who told Gaby to “compliment the designer” for him. Encouraged by his reaction, Elsa began designing clothes for herself and friends. Up until her death in 1973, at age 83, she continued to be in the fashion from her #Ven dome apartment and her summer house in .. #Tunisia.
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#ALESSANDROBERGA | L’ÉDITOR
#SUMMERSEMIOLOGIA #MODEDIPLOMATIQUE (at Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia)