Elsa Schiaparelli (10 September 1890 – 13 November 1973) was an influential Italian fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel, she dominated fashion between the two World Wars.[1] Starting with knitwear, her designs were heavily influenced by Surrealists like her collaborator Salvador Dalí. However unlike Chanel she never adapted to the changes in fashion after World War II and her business closed in 1954.
There are so many amazing anecdotes in her biography, it's stranger and better than fiction. She created the shade "shocking pink," and that's not the half of it.
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