How Elsa Schiaparelli Dressed ‘the Most Masculine City in the World’ (opens in new tab)

<p><img src=" referrerpolicy="no-referrer"></p><p>Elsa Schiaparelli the Parisian, trickster couturier who put shoes on heads and lobsters on skirts founded her namesake label in 1927. Her eccentrics made a certain amount of sense in Paris, but what did she think of London? “The most masculine city in the world,” she proclaimed in her 1954 autobiography. And what of the English themselves? “Profoundly honest,” but “mad, mad, mad.” In 1933, when Schiaparelli opened a London satellite of her th...