Five key pieces to look out for in V&A's Schiaparelli exhibition according to its curator
As a landmark exhibition on avant-garde fashion house Schiaparelli opens at London's V&A, curator Sonnet Stanfill walks Dezeen through five highlights and hidden gems you won't want to miss.
Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art is the first UK exhibition dedicated to the maison founded by the late Elsa Schiaparelli in 1927, known for interpreting the interwar surrealist movement through cloth.
Among the 400 objects on show are some of the Parisian fashion house's most celebrated yet little-seen pieces...