The Feud Series: Lanvin vs. Schiaparelli: Part 2 — The Clients Who Chose Sides: Society vs. Surrealism

Parisian Women Didn’t Just Buy Couture — They Declared Allegiance In the 1930s, couture wasn’t simply fashion. It was identity. It was politics. It was social alignment. To choose a couturier was to choose a worldview. And nowhere was this more visible than in the divide between Jeanne Lanvin’s clientele and Elsa Schiaparelli’s devotees — two groups of womenContinue reading “The Feud Series: Lanvin vs. Schiaparelli: Part 2 — The Clients Who Chose Sides: Society vs. Surrealism”