Una puntata di Face to Face è dedicata al confronto tra le due donne più fashion della storia: Gabrielle 'Coco Chanel' e la sua rivale, Elsa Schiaparelli. Ecco entrambe le regine dell'haute couture, in una photogallery che restituisce tutto il fascino rivoluzionario dei loro stili.
Gabrielle Chanel, known as Coco (1883 – 1971), top French couturier, at Fauborg, St Honore, Paris. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)
1928, Paris, France — Elsa Schiaparelli, French Fashion Designer — Image by © Austrian Archives/CORBIS
Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli (1890 – 1973). (Photo by Peter North/Getty Images)
1st March 1934: Italian dress designer Elsa Schiaparelli (1890 – 1973), who also created a number of perfumes. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)
Italian-born French fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)
Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli (1890 – 1973), 6th March 1936. (Photo by Sasha/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Madam Elsa Schiaparelli enjoying her study which is filled with treasures, paintings, and books. (Photo by Hans Wild//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)
8th October 1947: Italian dress designer Elsa Schiaparelli (1890 – 1973), who also created a number of perfumes. (Photo by George Konig/Keystone Features/Getty Images)
French fashion designer Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel (1883 – 1971) at a London hotel, 1932. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
French fashion designer Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel (1883 – 1971) in New York City, 1932. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Italian-born French fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli (1890 – 1973) arrives in London wearing her latest fashion design, the trousered skirt or culottes. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
Innovative, witty Paris fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, right, in Hyde Park, London, wearing her ‘trousered skirt’ and illustrating her current fashion message: ‘Trousers For Women!’ (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
French fashion designer Coco Chanel (1883 – 1971), circa 1962. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
French fashion designer Coco Chanel is congratulated by French principal dancer Jacques Chazot after presenting her Spring-Summer collection in Paris, 30th January 1958. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY24: models display 24 January 1977 in Paris : left, checked blue red and white woolen suit embroidered with a white cotton blouse with Claudine neck. At right, Pink and white tweed suit embroidered with a white wool brid worn with a white silk musslin blouse and tied neck designed by Chanel for Spring/Summer 1977 Haute-Couture collection (Photo credit should read STAFF/AFP/Getty Images)
PARIS, FRANCE – JULY 21: a model displays 21 July 1972 in Paris a striped woolen suit in automnal forest shades designed by Chanel for Autumn-Winter 1972/73 Haute-Couture collection (Photo credit should read STAFF/AFP/Getty Images)
La puntata di Face to Face di questo lunedì è dedicata al confronto tra le due donne più fashion della storia: Gabrielle ‘Coco Chanel’ e la sua rivale, Elsa Schiaparelli. L’estetica di Chanel era diametralmente opposta a quella della Schiaparelli, eppure si contendevano la stessa, ricercatissima clientela. Ecco entrambe le regine dell’haute couture , in una photogallery che restituisce tutto il fascino rivoluzionario dei loro stili.