Bag
Designer
Elsa Schiaparelli
(1890 - 1973)
c. 1938
Quilted black silk with ribbon
Museum purchase
Object numberP87.19.2
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.
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; mirrorCollections
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