Button

Designer Elsa Schiaparelli Italian
 Attributed to Jean Clemént
Attributed to Roger Jean-Pierre

Not on view

Several of these buttons and fasteners were shown in "A Slice of Schiaparelli: Surrealism in Fashion from the Brooklyn Museum." Patricia Mears names and dates them as follows:
"Tinsel Candlestick" jacket fasteners, winter 1937-38
"Playing Card" emblem buttons, fall-winter 1939
"Ship Tacking Hinge" jacket pins, ca. 1935
"Crown" button, fall 1937
"Victorian mirror" suit pins, spring 1938
"Cricket" jacket pins, fall 1938

Button, Elsa Schiaparelli (Italian, 1890–1973), glass, metal, French

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