It’s around the swimming pool of the villa Noailles that Schiaparelli’s exhibition blooms this spring. Revealing the designer’s most iconic creations, the exhibition explores the House’s recent endeavors led by creative director Bertrand Guyon, starting off with a portrait of Marie-Laure de Noailles wearing a jacket by Schiaparelli and photographed by Man Ray. With jackets being one of Schiaparelli’s most exceptional creations, “Story-Tailoring” seems like the perfect way to highlight the eccentricity of the cuts, the fabulousness of the designs and the lavishness of the embroideries.

Noailles was actually a French artist, whose love for surrealism permitted her to explore her freedom in so many ways. Elsa Schiaparelli was a true innovator, offering a brand new vision at a time where audacity was much undermined. Both of the grand artists had many friends in common as well, from Dalí, Cocteau to Man Ray.

“Dress designing, incidentally, is to me not a profession but an art. I found it was a most difficult and unsatisfying art, because as soon as a dress is born it has already become a thing of the past. ” Elsa Schiaparelli, Shocking Life, 1954.

Fostering the bridges between fashion and art, the exhibition puts a brave spin on fashion, showcasing the House’s contemporary jackets and its emblematic designs such as the Zodiac and Jean Cocteau face-to-face profiles.

The Photo Gallery, right this way…