SURREAL THING; As a V&As how reveals the link between surrealism and fashion, Lifestyle pays tribute to Dali & co.

From: The Daily Mail (London, England) | Date: March 5, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: SUMMER LITCHFIELD

FASHION can be a surreal business at the

best of times, but in the late Thirties

when Elsa Schiaparelli collaborated with

Salvador Dali to design an ankle-length

black gown with protruding skeletal

bones and a jaunty hat in the shape of a

shoe, the true love affair between fashion and

surrealism officially began.

French writer and poet Andre Breton wrote The

Surrealist Manifesto in 1924. It became the bible for a literary and artistic movement which believed that harnessing dreams and uninhibited thoughts and ...

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