The designer’s first collaboration was with Russian-French writer Elsa Triolet in 1931 on an “Aspirin ... and “Shocking,” sold in a bottle shaped like actress Mae West, who Schiaparelli often dressed ...

And an avid student of history, incorporating the Surrealist signatures of Elsa Schiaparelli herself into his collections since he took the post in 2019. (Her monogrammed cigarette case was ...