Object: Bag
Designer:
Elsa Schiaparelli
(1890 - 1973)
Date: c.1938
Medium: Quilted black silk with ribbon
Country: France
Credit Line: Museum purchase
Object number: P87.19.2
DescriptionVase bag in quilted black silk satin bag in the shape of an urn with purple and green satin ribbon on handles and around foot of urn; mirror
Label Text:Elsa Schiaparelli is best known for her humorous and often surrealistic style, which can be seen in this evening bag from the late 1930s. Famous as the designer responsible for the "shoe hat" and buttons shaped like lamb chops, Schiaparelli also created a handbag in the form of a classical urn, evoking her love of Victoriana. The quilted design of the urn bag references the quilted linings of nineteenth-century menswear.
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Head to Toe
- Fashioning the Modern Woman: The Art of the Couturiere, 1919-1939
- The Couture Accessory