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DESCRIPTION:Mar 28 - Nov 8\, 2026\nIt’s amazing that Elsa Schiaparelli (1
 890–1973) has never had an exhibition in the U.K. After all\, when she e
 scaped the palazzo in Rome where she grew up in a family of scholars—a h
 ome most would envy but she found too strict—she went to the English cou
 ntryside to be an au pair. When that didn’t work out\, she made her way 
 to London\, married the theosophist Wilhem de Kerlor—he was actually a d
 azzling con artist—and lived catch-as-catch-can. Pretty soon she left de
  Kerlor and took herself and their daughter to Paris\, where she began to 
 design clothes\, encouraged by Paul Poiret. Cut to the 1930s: “Schiap\,
 ” as she was called\, was the talk of the town. She drew her cultured ba
 ckground and love of Surrealism into her ensembles\, which were sharp and 
 witty\, full of metaphor and allusion. Chanel was frustrated by this Itali
 an upstart\, who stole the limelight with her chic shows and intellectual 
 cachet. Then came the 40s\, world war\, and Schiap’s time was over. But 
 the 30s belonged to her\, as you’ll learn at “Schiaparelli: Fashion Be
 comes Art\,” the first U.K. exhibition on the inventive designer.
LOCATION:Victoria and Albert Museum\, Cromwell Rd\, Knightsbridge\, London 
 SW7 2RL\, UK
SUMMARY:Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art
URL;VALUE=TEXT:https://airmail.news/arts-intel/events/schiaparelli-fashion-
 becomes-art
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