Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli made women feel beautiful, daring, and independent - by convincing them to wear insect jewelry, clown prints, and shoes on their heads. Schiaparelli routinely made headlines in the 1920s and '30s. She was a perfectionist who invented the first bathing suit with a built-in bra, the see-through raincoat, the ladies' evening jacket, and the wrap dress.
Though Schiaparelli was notorious in the 1930s, her embrace of Surrealism - along with its confrontational fusion of ugly and beautiful - was brushed under the rug a few decades later. And yet many Schiaparelli designs were so avant-garde that they still have the power to shock, and contemporary designers continue to riff on her work today.
(thanks Hunter)
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