The opening outfit of the Victoria and Albert museum’s ongoing Schiaparelli retrospective is the Skeleton dress, a 1938 collaboration between the house’s founder, Elsa Schiaparelli and the artist Salvador Dalí. They both liked spooky-ooky stuff, unsettling people through luxurious fashion that somehow had an element of the distasteful or grotesque to it. That gruesome twosome whipped each other up. Another jointly conceived dress from the same collectionhellip;

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