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Shocking, an exhibition to rediscover the work of Elsa Schiaparelli

Curator at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris, Marie-Sophie Carron de la Carrière signs the curatorship of an Elsa Schiaparelli retrospective which runs from July 6, 2022 to January 22, 2023.

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Shocking, an exhibition to rediscover the work of Elsa Schiaparelli

Twenty years after a first retrospective, the Musée des Arts décoratifs, which holds in its collections a unique series of more than six thousand drawings by the Maison Schiaparelli as well as a set of clothes and accessories, allows us to (re)discover the work of this big name in fashion to the new generation. " Shocking! The surreal worlds of Elsa Schiaparelli is also the first exhibition to highlight, through paintings and photographs, the links that united the seamstress to the artistic avant-garde of the time.

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