SCHIAP'S 12 COMMANDMENTS   

I just can't get enough about the rebirth of the fashion house Elsa Schiaparelli, 1927, this coming July at the same address where the designer once had: 21 Place Vendome in a 1^st district of Paris. It truly goes down through my veins hearing news like this, it seems that legendary fashion icons/designers have taken back the spotlight.

Elsa Schiaparelli's famous shoe hat design

Below, is the Elsa Schiaparelli's 12 commandments for women she has written down:

1. Since most women do not know themselves they should try to do so.

2. A woman who buys an expensive dress and changes it, often with disastrous result, is extravagant and foolish.

3. Most women (and men) are color-blind. They should ask for suggestions.

4. Remember-twenty percent of women have inferiority complexes. Seventy percent have illusions. 

5. Ninety percent are afraid of being conspicuous, and of what people will say. So they buy a gray suit. They should dare to be different.

6. Women should listen and ask for competent criticism and advice.

7. They should choose their clothes alone or in the company of a man.

8. They should never shop with another woman, who sometimes consciously or unconsciously, is apt to be jealous.

9. She should buy little and only of the best or cheapest.

10. Never fit a dress to the body, but train the body to fit the dress.

11. A woman should buy mostly in one place where she is known and respected, and not rush around trying every new fad. 

12. And she should pay her bills.

And now, as highlighted above, I am totally agreeing with numbers 5, 9, 10, 11, and 12, don't you?

That's all. 

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REBIRTH OF THE HOUSE SCHIAPARELLI    

Lo and behold, Businessman Diego Della Valle announced on just last week (7th of May 2012) that he will be in control of the project of having the house of Schiaparelli be reborn from its ashes. YES! The fashion house will indeed open in July at the same address where the designer once had: 21 Place Vendome in a 1^st district of Paris. Della Valle is the man behind the revival of Roger Vivier footwear and perfume. 


Elsa Schiaparelli was very known for her Surreal eccentricities and her trademark color, the purple-tinged magenta she dubbed “shocking pink,” but in fashion terms, “she changed the outline of fashion from soft to hard, from vague to definite,” in the words of Vogue’s mid-century fashion editor Bettina Ballard. 

Elsa Schiaparelli, 1937, wearing her shoe hat design

In 1927, Elsa Schiaparelli opened her boutique on fashionable Rue de la Paix. Her success was meteoric; by 1932, she had a staff of 400 working in eight ateliers to produce up to 8,000 garments a year. WOW!

Schiap's best-known perfume "Shocking!" (1936), contained in a bottle sculpted by Leonor Fini 

She loved working with metallic gold thread and sequins

Schiaparelli's famous shoe hat design, 1937

Schiaparelli's skeleton dress, 1938

The Italian fashion designer (and Coco Chanel rival) brought conceptual fashion to the masses in the 1930s with collections that drew heavily on the Surrealist art movement for inspiration. According to Ballard, she “never wanted to be bored by her business or to bore her customers” and was facing bankruptcy, she shuttered her doors in 1954. and was facing bankruptcy. Archrival Coco Chanel derisively described Schiap as “that Italian artist who makes clothes,” and Schiap would not have been insulted by the designation. “Dress designing . . . is to me not a profession but an art,” she wrote. 

Elsa Schiaparelli inspired countless fashion designers like Galliano, McQueen, Gaultier and Yves Saint Laurent. 

Farida Khelfa will be the brand ambassadress and for the name of the new designer the it was not until October 2012 shall be announced but the names of John Galliano, Rodolfo Paglialunga and Jean Paul Gaultier are now floating!

Oh my, Jovitz! This gonna be another historical event in the world of Fashion! So, if you live nearby 21 Place Vendome in a 1^st district of Paris, don't forget to witness the opening of new premises.

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Photos and references by Vogue.fr, Vogue, jewlr, mimifroufrou, and lovesoyl.

MET COSTUME INSTITUTE GALA 2012     

Remember my last post about the “Impossible Conversations” of Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada? YES! T'was, indeed, the most powerful spring blockbuster exhibition ever celebrated in the history of the Museum of Art. 

Metropolitan Costume Institute Gala 2012 held just last 7th of this month at the Museum of Art, organized by one and only consequential woman, Anna Wintour, Vogue US editor-in-chief. The red carpet was flourished with so many stars from the world of fashion and cinema industry dressed well by fashion designers who were also present in the event and of course, runway pieces from the Fashion Week.

Inhale, exhale, this gonna be a sumptuous buffet for the fashion eyes:

Anna Wintour in Prada

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IMPOSSIBLE CONVERSATIONS

This is the most powerful (so far) spring blockbuster exhibition ever be commemorated in the history of the Museum of Art -  “Impossible Conversations” Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada. 

The two backbreaking Italian designers are celebrated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this month, when the Costume Institute unveils “Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations” (May 10–August 19).  So, if you live some where in America, don't forget to visit the The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue New York on the said dates. 

Lo and behold on the next photos! I can't breathe! I can't breathe! I can't breathe! 

Primo Prada

Selections from Prada collections spanning spring 1996 to fall 2011.  

Hair: Guido for Redken
Make up: Pat McGrath for Cover Girl 

Production design: Mary Howard

Photographed by Steven Meisel

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