Pure sportswear, they were an aggressive rebuke of everything frilly and flouncy, knitwear that was easy to slip on-and off (you can think of them as the athleisure wear of their age). Elsa became famous for her couture, but her career debut was those then- groundbreaking trompe l’oeil knits.
Of all Elsa Schiaparelli’s legacies, her most enduring might have been her marriage of art and fashion.
