2 results for: Schiaparelli, Elsa
Rose satin gown with butterfly print, 1937-1938
Elsa Schiaparelli, who was known for avant-garde and surrealist touches, designed this gown at her couture house in Paris. The gown belonged to Guendolen Carkeek Plestcheeff, who was born in Seattle but spent time in Europe as a young woman. She continued to make buying trips overseas to restock her wardrobe long after she moved back to Seattle in 1931.…
ID Number:1953.642.6C588
Date:1937-1938
Ball gown from the House of Schiaparelli, ca. 1951
This gown is from the couture house of Elsa Schiaparelli, likely during Hubert de Givenchy’s design tenure in the early 1950s. It boldly contrasts the black skirt and beading with Schiaparelli’s signature color, “shocking pink.”The wearer, Ruth Schoenfeld Blethen Clayburgh, was a prominent arts patron who attended and organized many of Seattle’s most glamorous fundraising events. She was a founder…
ID Number:1991.18
Date:Circa 1951