Schiaparelli is a fashion brand, originally founded by Elsa Schiaparelli in 1927. The current artistic director is Daniel Roseberry. Schiaparelli is known for the use of Surrealism in its designs, with the brand collaborating with artists such as Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso and more.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli was an Italian fashion designer, aristocrat and poet based in Paris, France. She was born 10th September 1890 and died 13th November 1973. Schiaparelli studied at the University of Rome and wrote a poetry book named Arethusa, which led to her being sent to a convent in Switzerland after her parents found out about the book and the sensual contents of the poems. So she’d be able to leave, Elsa Schiaparelli went on hunger strike. When she left the convent, she moved to London where she met Count William de Wendt and then moved to New York City with him and had a daughter, who she named Yvonne. Yvonne caught Polio and Elsa’s marriage was going poorly, leading her to divorce the Count and move to Paris. There, she started creating her own eccentric designs after spending time with creatives in the city.
Daniel Roseberry
Daniel Roseberry is the current artistic director of Schiaparelli, and was born in Texas in 1985. His mother was an artist and his father was a priest and his household was deeply religious. He travelled on Christian service missions after high school and when he returned to America, he studied at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology. He left after 2 years and started to work at Thom Browne, where he later became head of design. After 10 years at Thom Browne, he became the artistic director of Maison Schiaparelli in 2019.
References
https://www.schiaparelli.com/en/21-place-vendome/the-story-of-the-house
https://www.schiaparelli.com/en/21-place-vendome/daniel-roseberry
Fashion makeup artists
Val Garland
Val Garland is a makeup artist known for her work with Alexander McQueen and Lady Gaga, and being a judge on the BBC series Glow Up. She started her career as a hairdresser in a salon after dropping out of school at 15 years old. When she was 16, Garland quit her job as a hairdresser and worked for British Gas as a computer and then worked as a receptionist for Rolls Royce. She started working as a hair dresser again at her boyfriend(later husband)’s friend’s salon and became fairly successful. She later moved to Perth with her husband and owned her own salon for a while. She eventually left her husband and went back to the UK to live in London. When she first started working as a makeup artist, she was mainly working with up and coming designers within the fashion industry like Alexander McQueen. She’s gone on to work with Vogue, i-D, Visionaire and other magazines. Garland won the Pantene Pro-V Make-up Artist of the Year award in 2004 and became the first Global Make-up Director for L’Oréal Paris in 2017. Along with Dominic Skinner, she has been a main judge of BBC’s Glow Up since 2019.