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Daisy Fellowes, long considered the best-dressed woman of her generation, was known for her fashion daring, and confidently wore audacious items like Elsa Schiaparelli's surrealist shoe-shaped hat with a shocking pink heel.
A Salute to Women in Uniform Annette Tapert 2011
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How I admire the message behind Schiaparelli's rise, comparable to the way Athena sprang from Zeus's skull, fully grown and shimmering in battle armor: visualize what you want to be, and become it.
Lesley M. M. Blume: ICONS OF STYLE SERIES: Designer And Coco Chanel Rival Elsa Schiaparelli (PHOTOS) Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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The dress code called for emulating Schiaparelli's famous "hat shaped like a shoe" or Dali's "hand-painted lobster dress."
Lisa Salzer: I Wore a 40 lb Tunic Made Entirely of Jewelry Lisa Salzer 2010
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The dress code called for emulating Schiaparelli's famous "hat shaped like a shoe" or Dali's "hand-painted lobster dress."
Lisa Salzer: I Wore a 40 lb Tunic Made Entirely of Jewelry Lisa Salzer 2010
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The dress code called for emulating Schiaparelli's famous "hat shaped like a shoe" or Dali's "hand-painted lobster dress."
Lisa Salzer: I Wore a 40 lb Tunic Made Entirely of Jewelry Lisa Salzer 2010
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This dress from Schiaparelli's Fall/Winter 1939 collection has a prominently displayed front-of-torso zipper closure that is functional and artistic, and gives the witty, Surrealist suggestion that the dress is being worn backward.
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Of course, further study of Mars has revealed neither water bodies nor any signs of intelligent life on the planet, and Schiaparelli's 'canali' were shown to be nothing more than an optical illusion.
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A combination of translation error and overactive imaginations caused some of Schiaparelli's contemporaries, including astronomer Percival Lowell, to re-label these features as canals, suggesting that Mars was home to both an advanced Martian civilization and abundant water bodies.
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Yet, our study of the planet has only increased, and our curiosity has only deepened, as countless images and numerous space missions have been dedicated to the Red Planet since Schiaparelli's time.
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A combination of translation error and overactive imaginations caused some of Schiaparelli's contemporaries, including astronomer Percival Lowell, to re-label these features as canals, suggesting that Mars was home to both an advanced Martian civilization and abundant water bodies.
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