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Her clothes were smart, sophisticated and often wildly eccentric, and she had a huge following. Her ideas, coupled with designs she commissioned from famous artists, were carried out with considerable skill. Salvador Dalí, Christian Bérard and Jean Cocteau, for example, designed fabrics and accessories. Jean Schlumberger produced costume jewellery and buttons. Art movements such as Cubism and Surrealism influenced her designs. She used tweed to make evening wear and hessian for dresses. She dyed furs, put padlocks on suits and popularised Tyrolean peasant costume.  \r\n\r\nThis jacket employs a subtle yet innovative use of different fabrics and textures. Schiaparelli cleverly combines a classic tailored cut with vibrant colour and unusual metal coiled trimmings. This garment, which caused astonishment in the 1930s, now seems feminine and uncontroversial.","physicalDescription":"Evening jacket of bright pink softly piled woollen cloth and fitted to the figure and hip length. The small rounded collar and curved pocket flaps are trimmed with overlapping rows of braid formed of coiled metal springs in shades of blue, pink and green. The jacket fastens almost to the neck with dark blue buttons with a cast design of a standing Venus. The sleeves are long and plain and the shoulders are slightly padded. 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