Schiaparelli 1938

Elsa Schiaparelli as Ringmaster.  And all of Paris followed her folly and her circus...

In Vogue.  1938.

In the Philadelphia Museum:

Naif drawings of circus animals on silk crepe.

Collection of the Philadelphia Museum

In the V & A:

Detail from a 1938 Schiaparelli Circus Collection silk twill jacket with prancing horses and gold metallic thread saddles and plumes.  The buttons are handmade cast metal acrobats:

Collection V & A

Brown wool jacket with cast metal circus horses buttons:

Collection V & A