Two powerful installations @macaal_ in Marrakech -Artists Prune Nourry and Ade Bantu in collaboration with Catharsis Arts Foundation and Obafemi-Awolowo University, 108 students from across Nigeria, and the families of the Chibok girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014.
-Crazy Lines
Yassine Balbzioui (b. Casablanca, Morocco 1972) In situ installation exploring the mask as staged identity.
Many thanks to@meriemberrada for sharing her expertise and knowledge of the MACAAL installations
Why Schiaparelli? Elsa Schiaparelli disrupted fashion at a moment when it was expected to behave. She embroidered celestial maps on jackets, added measuring tape as trim, and with Salvador Dali proposed a hat fashioned as an upside down shoe.
Curating this exhibition was an invitation to re-read fashion history - not just as aesthetics or silhouette but as provocation.
Photograph of Elsa Schiaparelli c. 1935 taken at 21 Place Vendôme, Paris courtesy Marisa Schiaparelli Berenson
#ElsaSchiaparelli #FashionAsArt #VAMuseum #SurrealistFashion
Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art exhibition book has arrived!
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Elsa Schiaparelli sent shockwaves through the fashion establishment with her witty, ingenious and provocative designs. Lauded by Cristóbal Balenciaga as the ‘only real artist in couture’ she infused her collections with Surrealist influences, and collaborated on pieces with art-world contemporaries including Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dalí and Alberto Giacometti.
@thefifearms Festival of Fashion in Braemar Scotland for great conversations, stunning scenery and warm hospitality. Honoured to be on stage today w Editor Lydia Slater @bazaaruk@lydiasmag & CEO Delphine Bellini of @schiaparelli about next @vamuseum fashion exhibition Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art, opening 28 March 2026.
