Surrealist Erotica: Elsa Schiaparelli Part 1 (preview)

sexdeathrebirth (60)in #art • 7 years ago

Today I started working on one of the next video installments for the Surrealist Erotica series. For this installment, I invoked the Surrealist fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli. For her Fall/Winter collection in 1936-1937 she designed black evening gloves that had red python patterned nails on them. I recreated them for this piece.

Elsa Schiaparelli's gloves

Joan Pope's recreation of Elsa Schiaparelli's 1936 gloves.

The projection in the background is illustrations of Elsa's "Shoe Hat" which was a collaboration with Salvador Dali.

Hat by Elsa Schiaparelli

According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art website, "The idea for it, as recounted in Dilys Blum's authoritative book on the designer, was a photograph of Salvador Dali wearing a shoe on his head and another on his shoulder taken by his wife in 1933."

Speaking of Elsa's collaboration with Salvador Dali, there is an exhibit highlighting their work together at the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida on view until January 14, 2018.

There's some more I want to do related to Elsa Schiaparelli before I make the final video to be uploaded to Vimeo on Demand. I'd like to definitely do something related to her Zodiac collection, and maybe a brief reference to the Lobster Dress.

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Preview of the video for the Surrealist Erotica Series.