The Life and Death of Elsa Schiaparelli
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- Опубликовано: 1 июл 2024
- Elsa was the genius of her generation. Out selling any other designer by far and inventing countless designs over her years. Newspaper print, decorative zippers, the women's suit, the backwards suit, the wrap dress and culottes are just some of the many inventions made first by Schiaparelli. But what of the woman behind the genius?
00:00 Intro
01:03 Chapter 1: CHILDHOOD
24:05 Chapter 2: LONDON, PARIS & AMERICA. LOVE, MARRIAGE & DIVORCE
48:28 Chapter 3: A RETURN TO PARIS
59:50 Chapter 4: THE BEGINNINGS OF SCHIAPARELLI
1:18:29 Chapter 5: SUCCESS UPON SUCCESS UPON SUCCESS
1:40:30 Chapter 6: WORLD WAR TWO
1:56:04 Chapter 7: SUSPICION
2:10:46 Chapter 8: EXILE
2:16:52 Chapter 9: THE POST-WAR, THE DEMISE AND THE DEATH
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Adlington (2021) The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: amzn.to/457NZ1S
Baudot (1997) Fashion Memoir: Elsa Schiaparelli (I don't think it's on Amazon)
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Blum (2003) Shocking: The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli: amzn.to/3yEjfZT
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Schiaparelli (1954) Shocking Life: amzn.to/4dWCMoR
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Oh wow this is a major treat
I know the video won't do numbers like a video about Kim or Kylie, but these are brain food for creatives. Thanks for the thoroughness.
Maybe over time it will, hopefully people will slowly but surely realise what an incredible incredible kind wonderful person she really was
2.5hr understitch drop? Let's goooooooo Thanks for your hard work!
Im glad you like it 🥰
Wooooo! I didn't even notice how long it was!!
Thats great as long as you say that after watching it 😅 saying that before watching it would be worrisome 🤣
With so many AI-narrated videos nowadays, your videos are a breath of fresh air! Kudos for injecting emotion into them and for sharing the knowledge.
So many people think my voice is AI and Im not really sure why, but Ill take it as a compliment 🤣 they usually double back when I reply to their comments though 😅 Im glad you liked the video, it was a lot of very enjoyable human reading about her life and I just adored it
@@understitchYT I meant there is no way yours is AI! 🫣 There is emotion in the words and in the delivery.
Agreed
Oh yeah de I understood what you meant, I meant other people think Im AI 🤣
@@understitchYTi think because a lot of AI narrators have a British accent. And you have that consistent tone that could be associated with AI at face value. But really please take it as a compliment because your essays are SO WELL RESEARCHED some might think it's an AI narration of a published article 🙌🙌🙌
Small addendums: Marisa went by "Marisa Berenson", so people might not have recognized she was a Schiaparelli at first glance. Berry (surname Perkins after marriage) was tragically one of those who perished on nine eleven, and to add to injury, was on one of the planes.
To end on something happier, if anyone paid attention to the "Schiaparelli crater" mentioned in "The Martian", yes, it was discovered by Giovanni Schiaparelli, Elsa's brother.
Woah I had no idea Berry died in 9/11, that makes me so sad to know, but it explains so much why so little of her life was in the books while Marisa was discussed a fair bit
I didn't realise that Berry Berenson had died on 9-11. How sad.
You are an absolute saint for a video this long xx
Its my masterpiece 🥰
@@understitchYTvery much appreciated!!
Rest in piece, Schiap. You would've love free 🇵🇸 movement❤️
Thank you for this marvelous biography
Wow, this was phenomenal! Schiaparelli really was a remarkable woman. Thank you for making this.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it
Bravo, this was an excellent biography. I know very little about Schiaparelli until now. By the end of the video Ms. Elsa felt like an auntie I knew in the past. She was an awesome woman and an inspiration.
She is everyones auntie by the sounds of it. We can all go get bread and jam in her biouviac 🥰
To say that I’m thankful is an understatement ❤️ I owe my newfound respect for the wonderful woman that was Schiaparelli to you!
That makes me so happy, she was a wonderful person
Thanks!
Wow thank you so much!
What a treat! I'm promptly downloading this video to watch while I complete some crochet projects... hmmm, might even design something inspired by the amazing Elsa Schiap', as I'll now call her... Schiaparelli is a beautiful mouthful!
If you design please send it to me on insta! I adore personal designs 🤍
What you said at 2:20:10 was so profound, I've never heard this saying before! Thank you for this lovely video. Never disappointed with the content on this channel 💯
You might have to remind me what I said a 2:20:10 🙈
Thank you for this in-depth video about Schiaparelli. I enjoyed every minute watching this 🙏🏻
Im so glad, thank you so much 🥰
When I saw the length I had to take double take. What a treat. Just starting now.
It was a tough decision to make wether to just go for the long one or shorten it 😅
I have a long project to get through, the timing of this video is so perfect ❤
Oh great, Im glad to be of service (and very happy for my watch time 🤣)
An exceptionally well-told inspirational and aspirational account of an independent woman who succeeded with talent, charisma, and determination. Thank you! And yet, poor Go-Go 💔
I felt bad for Gogo all up until she did exactly the thing that she had complained that her mother did to her to her children, but without the excuse that they needed specialised medical care.
I can’t really have much sympathy if she was willing to repeat the same things
Magnificently done!
Thank you so much
Better than watching a movie, thank you for this video, had goosebumps in the end.
My new direct competitor is Pixar 🤌
What a woman, what a life… and what a wonderful narration!
Congrats on the first year and thank you for this fascinating video on one of my faves 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Wasnt she so incredible? I was also fascinated when researching. Im glad you enjoyed it so much 🥰
Wow, she was an industrious person! Her war efforts are incredibly admirable, her daughter's as well. It feels good to be able to admire her as a desinger and as a person.
Right? Its so rare to find a company/damous person that survived the war in success and wasnt liked to thooose people. Very happy to know how lovely she way
I am so excited for this one!
Youre probably still watching, but I hope you enjoy 🥰
Really in depth. Great vid.
Thank you!
Thanks for this, you're the best!
Im so glad you liked it 🥰
Thank you so much for creating and sharing this biography!
Im so glad you enjoyed it
OH MY GOOOOD!!!!!! 2 hour video coming from you. i live! something to look forward to.
I loved making it, definitely a labour of love on this one 🥰
We are blessed!! Thank you so much!
Thank you for watching 🤍
Thank you for making this video
Im so glad its been so well appreciated 🥰
Ohhhhh how i love you right now! I have to completely go through and organize my garage, tomorrow, ready it for a sale, and there's decades of family handovers (China, pics, tchotchkes i never wanted) and cartons of paper to deal with. This incredible video will get me through it with as little pain as possible! Bless you, to the Heavens.🤩😍😇
Oh what perfect timing!! And should be an easy listen too given the chapters 🥰
Thank you for posting these video essays, they’re always so wonderful and informative, know that all of your work is much appreciated :)
Thank you so much, Im so glad you enjoyed it so much 🥰
This is amazing! I can't wait for your Versace video.
I do have the next biography planned 😶🌫️
Wow, that was so good!!! Thank you!
Im so glad 🥰
Thank you so much for this. Truly excellent. I adore such in-depth long-form content, on such a fascinating subject, and so meticulously researched.
Im so glad you enjoyed it, it was a real treat to make
wow this was amazing
Thank you for this work. ❤
Im so glad you enjoyed 🥰
Wonderful!! Not sure how this was in my feed but I’m so glad it was sent to me!!
Oh this was the first video you saw from me? Thats kind of great, I assumed because of the length itd only appeal to the most dedicated 🤣
This is AMAZING!!
Thank you so much 🥰
This was amazing!!!! I enjoyed every minute. Thanks for researching and putting this together. ❤❤❤
Im so glad you enjoyed it, I just adored making it 🥰
What a life and what an incredible woman! Thankyou for including so much detail on this one as always 🤌🏼
She was exactly that, Im so glad you enjoyed the biography 🤍
Epic! Thank you that was brilliant 👏🏾❤
Im so glad you enjoyed it 🥰
Brilliantly done - thank you for all of the work on this.
Thank you too!
Amazing video. Thank you and well done! ❤
Tha k you so much
Even when I think I know a designer so well... Understitch, will make sure to provide me with just a sea of knowledge! Never demotivating, it’s always a treat to be able to watch videos that are such a - dare I say, definitive source for each designer/house.
Incredible like always!
I would adore to know if anyone at the house watched it, so much love went into it
Very informative video
Glad you think so!
Such fantastic, detailed work! Grateful for all the effort you put into to this wonderful video.
Im so glad you enjoyed it 🥰
Fantastic, brilliant. Thank you so much.
Fantastic documentary and so well done. I can't imagine the hours you put into the research. Thank you so much. You should be really proud of this one.
It was about six months start to end, but I loved every minute, Im glad you enjoyed it so much
Just finished amazing video !!!!
Im glad you enjoyed it to the end!
This was amazing i love how you love her,
i end up crying a bit.
Thank you 💜
I cried many times making it too 🤍
Such an in-depth dive....and a great treat for the hot summer... Thank you for the great content as always
Just get in the air con or youll melt while watching this 🤣
@@understitchYT not to worry... They know how to use air conditioning in Vegas
LOVED this episode!!!! Such an informative video, full of great information and beautifully narrated 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Im so glad you enjoyed it! 🥰
This was amazing. Thoughtful and thorough. Thanks for your hard work!
Im glad yoy appreciate it, Im goad you liked it 🥰
Your work is so well reasearched and amazing! Thank you for all that you do for fashion!!!
I just love it so much, Im glad you enjoy it 🥰
Thank you so much for your hard work and dedication !!! I truly appreciate you and l learn so much!❤
I just adored making it and learning more about her
Just at the start but had to double back at the part where her grandmother died at the age of twenty when her mother was ten 😳
Yeah and she had five children by the age of twenty too, seems a bit 😬 by todays standards, but I guess that was the life of the old money back then 😬
I rarely comment on videos but this video is so brilliantly done, that I just had to. Congratulations on this, it is so well put together. I discovered your channel a few months ago and I devoured all your videos. For fashion lovers, your channel and videos are breaths of fresh air. Keep up the good work and I hope that we will get to see more amazing videos just like this one. ❤
What a lovely comment to read, I feel so honoured that you would comment under my video considering you don’t comment much 🤍
Extremely interesting and immensely appreciated! Thank you so much. You are an amazing narrator. A moving and poignant story. My respects to Elsa Schiaparelli and may she rest in peace. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I’m so glad you enjoyed it so much, I really really loved making this video
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Thank you so much 🙏😭
Im glad you liked it 🥰
Oh hell no that last line made me burst into tears. I am heart broken.
God researching this I was a wreck too
Thank you for this detailed captivating story.
Im so glad you enjoyed it 🥰
I have enjoyed every single minute of this video 🥰 "Schiap" is such an iconic figure!
Right? Im so glad to know how truly kind she was
Thanks for covering this designer.
She was a genius 🥰
I watched this video over three sessions…. I enjoyed this IMMENSELY. Thank you so much for your hard work. I found the story of Schiaparelli to be very moving… ✨
Im so glad I did this in chapters then! Happy to hear you enjoyed it so much 🥰
This is sooo good! You really deserve more followers!
Im so glad you enjoyed it, I adored making it 🥰
Brilliant work!!!
Thank you so much
One word...FABULOUS!!!
If you try hard thats three words
Congratulations on your milestone! 🎉 I absolutely adore your content! ❤
So close now! Less than 3k and 4 days to go 🥰
@@understitchYT we need to feed that algorithm then! 🥕
I just discovered your channel today, because YT apparently knows of my love of Schiaparelli & recommended your video. I am so happy it did! I am now a fan & yes, I have subscribed. Looking forward to more videos.
I have always adored Schiaparelli ever since I found a Schiaparelli hat in its lovely pink box in my grandmother's attic (I still have the hat). She made fashion fun. After watching your video, I now adore & respect this talented, kind, fascinating woman even more. Thank you so much for making this possible.
Regarding all her travel, I have to wonder if maybe she was using her celebrity status & connections to do a little reconnaissance for the allies, much like Josephine Baker did.
Genuinely that hat may be a museum-worthy piece now, you can always take it in to get checked and they might pay you for it (if you want that of course). How lucky you are to have a piece designed by Schiaparelli herself, and how lucky your grandmother was to get her hands on an original, she mustve felt like the most beautiful woman in the world - and Im sure she was too.
About the travel, I've been racking my brain too and I just have no idea, she wouldve spent only a day or two in each location, so it is odd that shed even bother at a time when travel was so difficult. My best bet is that she just needed a respite from whatever was going on in her personal life, but I really have no idea
This was wonderful… thanks for a fabulous biography.
Thank you for your hard work and thorough research!! 🎉
Thank you for commenting 🥰
An Excellent story-telling of Schiaparelli. Worth the time investment to listen. Didn't realise that the model was related, yet there is a familiarity in features observed by the photos included.
Very Well done.
So incredible!!❤
Wasnt she? So happy to know how kind she was
Absolutely loved this video! The Chanel videos were awesome but this is next level. Would love to see more 'historic' designer videos
I would love to make more historic videos too, but Ill probably always have to space them out if I want to make rent 😅
@understitchYT I'm happy to wait and watch all your other content in the meantime. Btw I've watched the Elsa 3 times now - it's just brilliant!!!
Thank you for all you do! I know these video must take so much work.They are so fascinating!
This one was about six months on and off and I enjoyed every minute (and kept crying when I was reading about her funeral 🤣)
@@understitchYT Wow that's some dedication! I haven't got to the funeral part yet - let me mentally prepare myself lol!
Did you prepare enough? 😅 and I just love it, Id still be reading even if I wasnt making a video
@@understitchYT So sad! But glad she was able to live such a full life! What was even more tragic was reading up on how her granddaughter Barry died in the 9/11 terror attack on the world trade center!
Yes, somebody commented that on my Instagram reel, I was really surprised to hear that, I didn’t know at all
Fascinating. Thank you.
Thank you 🥰
Well done - brava!❤
Thank you so much 🙌
My favourite designer YESSS
Wasnt she the best?
The excitement i felt when this notification popped up!!
I hope you enjoyed it, or are currently enjoying it in sessions 🤣
@understitchYT Immensely! It was lovely to fall asleep to last night, and now I'm finishing it.
It was a very interesting video. I became aware of Elsa in the 1970s through her granddaughter. Oh, did you know Marisa Berenson has a famous grandmother. I loved her in Barry Lyndon. Again, thank you alot.
I think certainly Marissa helped her grandmother‘s name stay alive for a whole new generation after it was closed down
I watched the whole thing.... incredibly researched and very gripping . . What a life ! I was really touched at the end when she called to Peno, her true first love while on her deathbed according to her grand daughter Marisa Berenson.
I was actually thinking that even if it’s not true that’s an incredibly kind thing for Marissa to have said, to allow her grandmother‘s memory to be caught in hyperbole one last time, just as she wanted
She lived a fascinating life, and this is a fascinating video
Im so glad you enjoyed it, she really was an amazing person
When I saw the Schiaparelli exhibition in Paris 2022, I was truly mesmerized by Elsa's design. It was whimsical and fun, unlike what one would expected from couture. It really captured your imagination unlike any other brands. Now understanding her backstory, it made me respect her beyond words.
The London, Paris, & America segment just sounded like a real life version of the film 'Poor Things'. Yet, Schiaparelli actually did truly became an independent woman who set out to save so many. The WW2 allegations just sounded very misogynistic and racist to her role as an immigrant. While she might not get a full comeback after the war, I'm so glad her name lives on today with great success. She really did live a full life on her own terms.
2hr 35 min video ? Feels like Christmas morning ❤️❤️❤️
Happy Christler 🎄
I’m here to encourage your other followers to let the ads run. This level of research deserves to be fully monetized!!
I think according to the terms of monetisation I cant endorse this, but Im glad to know you think my research is so worth it 🤍
@@understitchYT trust we all think very highly of you.
I think highly of you too 🥰
bestie, wake up!! understitch uploaded!!
Youll have to be up for a while 🤣
Hi so this was needed since the beginning of this channel, but only realized that upon clapping eyes on the thumbnail
I spent so so so much time on this thumbnail, it was very hard to make a woman born 134 years ago not look like she was born 134 years ago 😅 The photos are so aged -because theyre so old- that they just dont lend themselves well to a thumbail, though I will say I was lucky with this one of her facing forwards 😅
For the record I didnt realise hypens would cross out the text 😅
@@understitchYT 🤣🤣
ok, a 2 hour Undertitch video is my sign that I REALLY have to work on that sewing project now. Thank you for this gift 🙇🏻♀️
Hahahaha its kind of perfect for that! What are you making?
@@understitchYT I'm making matching dresses for me and my daughters. I sew for my family a lot. Your channel has been a huge inspiration for me, learning how renowned designers started and different their influence in mainstream fashion. I'll probably never own any designer clothing or become a designer, but I'm just really fascinated by the fashion world.
Oh I adore that, very Biba of you 🥰 if you hve instagram please send me pictures 🥰
@@understitchYT I do! ♥️
Great. Thankyou very much. Good to draw to.
Im glad you enjoyed it
What a difference from Chanel, who allegedly would spend hours setting a sleeve and to put it bluntly, was not known for her loyalty
As difficult as her relationship with Gogo seems, she seems to have been more present for her than her mother was for her. It’s difficult for any child, especially since she must have known how present her was for her friends, colleagues, and subordinates. Still, one would hope that Schiap was a better parent emotionally to her daughter, no matter how slight, than her parents were to her
In my opinion I think all in all Schiap wasnt a bad mother, but ahe was desperate. When gogo was a baby she had no choice but to do what she did if she didnt want them both left on the street (not that her mum would allow that). With that said, her dedication to get Gogo unending care from the second she could afford it, should be applauded. And honestly I think if Gogo didnt want that line to continue, she wouldnt have shipped Marisa and Berry off just like she was
Extraordinary women, what a fighter.
Right? Im so happy to know someone I respect so much was also so nice
„SCHIAP“!😱…. I so adore your videos and you are always so well spoken…
C using this abbreviation😅!
anyways… You are so fabulous and we so enjoy your content!❤️❤️❤️😘
#However
She preferred to be called Schiap over anything else and so I wanted to use it to be respectful of that 🥰
@@understitchYT WOW! THAT'S FABULOUS! You are so so well informed and everything is so perfectly researched! THANK YOU! We all love your videos! XXX
@@freifrauvonko9801 thank you so much 🥰
What a woman....I wish her house could have survived or revived at the time Chanel did, I think Elsa was more worthy of being remember as one of the best couturier of the XX century.
I think it would have if Givenchy wanted to take it over, but Im glad Roseberry is there now, I really think he is brilliant and Im so glad her name is back, she really deserves that
@@understitchYT oh no, for sure Im happy with how things turned out for the brand and Givenchy, but I meant that I wish the house haven't been as dormant, fashion wise, after her passing
love you so much
Love you too 🤍
Love love ❤
Read this like bruce almighty 🤍
You’re watching Understitch✨
Thank you.
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Liked in the first second hahah
I knew Usain Bolt watched my videos 🤣
My mother was a friend of her daughter Gogo, whom I was fortunate enough to meet on Christmas 1994
Wowwww thats incredible, what was she like?
@@understitchYT it was Xtmas 1994 in Gstaad. They had not seen each other since their days as young women. When they met again they were both well in their seventies, so they enjoyed being able to meet again and catch up with each other. They met for tea and talked about their respective lives . I attended because I was pregnant and could not ski. Gogo was totally natural and very nice. It was a few years before she lost one of her daughters on September 11, and it breaks my heart to think about what she must have gone through.
Much awaited video. I always assumed the founder of Schiaparelli was a man for some reason
Nono a very talented woman with an incredible lineage and legacy
@understitchYT I know that and get to know a lot more about this incredible woman thanks to you
I'm sorry but "where would this swimming pool of quicklime come from?" Is sending me 😭
It was allegedly so quick it hurt the young Schiap and immediately disappeared after 🤣
Between Elsa and Diana Vreeland, I’m starting not to believe historial accounts in fashion history lol Vreeland championed artifice, but by todays standards I can’t help but say “you don’t have to lie to kick it” 😂
Why specifically these two?
@@understitchYT both of them seemed to have embellished their life stories quite fiercely. But after watching the video to completion I do feel Elsa S. was more “fake it till you make it” in her approach to get out of poverty and make a name for herself. Coco Chanel was also one to go a little hard on the lies for PR, but my point is their seem to be a lot of fibbers in fashion. I actually welcome the hyperbolic and grandiose in legendary figures but it gets a little too Hunter S. Thompson with so many fashion figures where you really aren’t sure what truly happened or what can be attributed to whom. I read Vreeland’s autobiography and thought I could never imagine a life, only to find out pretty much half of it is made up. But I do also feel so many people of her generation where a little loose with their resumes or made up entire lives to escape not so great situations. Except Chanel does seem to have been the worst offender. Thank you btw for giving designers like Schiaparelli and Vionnet their flowers because without great mavericks like them in fashion, I feel the fashion world would be an even darker place. Sustainability and a devotion to craftspeople should really be at the forefront of fashion.
You still kind of find that now, McQueen was famously extremely hyperbolic with his CV. In a way it’s a bit of a shame that we can’t have that anymore because of how well documented our movements are, because it certainly made for very daring people, though I do understand where you’re coming from that it’s annoying that it’s hard to tell fact from fiction