Fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli was dismissed by her rival Coco Chanel as ‘that Italian artist who makes clothes’. Yet Schiaparelli’s collaborations with artists including Salvador Dalí and Jean Cocteau have become some of her most memorable designs.

On the occasion of the exhibitions Art & Fashion at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art at the V&A in London, this talk takes a closer look at how Schiaparelli worked with artists across her fascinating life and career from Rome to Paris, London to New York, and situates her within the longer history of art and fashion’s mutual inspirations.