Elsa Schiaparelli on "What's My Line?"

One for the fashionable folks.

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Entertainment

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• Elsa Schiaparelli
• fashion designers
• What's My Line
• John Charles Daly
• Faye Emerson
• Arlene Francis
• Bennett Cerf
• Hal Block

[63utuber]

Good for Bennett - looks like the panel was going to be stumped; obviously, she is not well-known today, so I would have had no idea except for the info here, and the interesting way she was dressed

[roots66]

Well, I'd say she is well-known by enthusiasts of fashion history, but indeed her heyday was in the '30s, well before this appearance. She also happens to be the grandmother of Marisa Berenson.

[bamf4s]

not well known? yes very well known for ALL fashion persons, she started the humor in fashion, she dressed the common person, she tied the art community of paris to the haute couture industry. She coined the color SHOCKING PINK. haha even the tuxedo shirt is a knock off of her very first infamous garment (ie schoolboy sweater)

and her time period is the 20s...and continued for decades through the world wars. She was also known as "the italian" by chanel

[uncutlondon]

She is the master of all fashion

[Zeeaworld]

Original idea. Loved the show

[StatManSteve]

Whatever that was on her head didn't compliment her at all. At least not in black and white anyway.

[SuperSimonuk]

you should check out vionnet and lanvin

[SuperSimonuk]

@63utuber

She was highly influential and worked with salvadore dali and was as well known in the fashion world as Chanel, who refferred to her as "that artists who makes clothes"

I work in the fashion industry and she is well known. The fashion world was Couture back then most designers werent the household names they are now. But she was the "Westwood" of her era

[Muirmaiden]

FYI - Elsa Schiaparelli was the grandmother of actress Marisa Berenson, and model/actress/photographer Berenthia "Berry" Berenson aka Mrs. Anthony Perkins.

[jimaroo100]

just goes to show you.... a pretty dress cant do much for a truly ugly woman

[MsSarjen]

@uncutlondon I don't think she dressed very well, though.

[soulierinvestments]

Last night I watched on DVD a movie for which she designed the costumes -- Anthony Asquith's film of Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" (1938). The gown Eliza wore to the embassy ball is just incredible.