From Lily Pads to Lettuce Heels: Fashion’s New Nature Obsession
In the 1930s, Elsa Schiaparelli, the famed Italian designer, turned an amorphous idea – the surreal – into a solid thing. Into many-headed dresses, illusory trompe l’oeil jumpers, and hats festooned with birds and beaks. But despite creating so much beauty …