Schiaparelli
エルザ・スキャパレリ
1890年ローマ生まれ。30年頃パリに自身の「エルザ・スキャパレリ」店をOpen。
1930～40年代、ファッション界ではココ・シャネルと並ぶ人気を博す。
第二次大戦中は NYで支店を開き、49年CostumeJewelryのライセンス生産開始。
エルザ・スキャパレリのデザインは大胆で洗練されており、宝石の質で評価されるのではなく、
デザインと技術によって評価されるコスチューム・ジュエリーの地位を確立しました。
初期のフランスで作られたジュエリーには、ほとんどに刻印が付けられてなく、
1949年からNY支店のライセンス製品にはSchiaparelliと筆記体で刻印がある。
1954年から彼女がなくなる73年まではブロック体でSCHIAPARELLIと刻印。
Elsa Schiaparelli was one of the most influential designers of the 20th Century and her innovative and experimental approach, which pushed the boundaries of accepted taste, continues to influence designers today.
She was born in Rome in 1890 into a famous and cultured family which lived in a Renaissance Palazzo. In the 1920's, she was drawn to Paris where most of the leading lights in the artistic world had gathered. She became friends with a number of avant garde artists including Dali, Cocteau and Man Ray.
She had begun designing jewelery in the 1930's when her designs were produced or influenced by her Surrealist friends. There was the brooch in the shape of an eye, lobster pins, lip-shaped brooches with pearls for teeth, earrings in the shape of telephones - they were audacious often whimsical but also reflected the philosophy of the Surrealists. Her famous 1938 Circus Collection included clowns, bears, acrobats and horses. The 1930's pieces are very rare and priced accordingly, but there are plenty of opportunities to buy 1940's and 1950's pieces and own your own piece of history.