Read more of Schiaparelli’s fascinating story ahead, where InStyle has gathered a crib sheet of key facts about her personal and professional life. In 1890, Elsa Luisa Maria Schiaparelli was ...

But before the French Maison became the buzzy, red carpet image-maker we know it today, it began as a tiny line launched nine decades ago in the Rue de l'Université apartment of an art-minded ...