Schiaparelli review – it’s cocktail o’clock with fashion’s surreal goddess who out-lobstered Dalí and turned a polar bear pink | Fashion
Naked mermaids and prancing horses, silk carrots and unshelled peanuts, gilded elephant trunks, drums and masks – and these are simply a few of the buttons. The V&A’s lavish spring present is a bizarre and fantastic tumble down the rabbit gap that’s Schiaparelli, fashion’s home of surrealism. Elsa Schiaparelli designed garments to be witty, not…