Catuma's designers were inspired by Elsa Schiaparelli's style to design an exclusive capsule collection of steel eyewear, with pink slate front, embellished with brass decorations.
XNUMX Elsa Schiaparelli, is still considered a pioneer of prêt-à-porter, for its extraordinary inventiveness, taste and innovation, as well as for having reinvented fashion, setting up the first "shows", fashion shows, or for having deconstructed the idea of a "closed" woman in her own clothes, introducing visible hinges.
Lover of unusual fabrics, decorations and bright colors, such as the shocking pink she invented, she has broken the mold, inspiring over the years, artists in all fields, including Salvador Dalì, with whom she collaborated giving life to the famous creations like the lobster painted on the skirt of a white dress or the Shoe-hat.
His play with volumes and fabrics generated the “skeleton dress”, in which the matelassé fabric simulated the human spine and ribs.
Catuma dedicates a special edition to his surrealism, his desire to go further, his sense of the marvelous free from the control of reason and morals, as well as his class and innate taste. Like her, who loved to indulge in materials, including the glass with which she made a dress, or the plexiglass, with which she forged bijoux visionaries for the time, the brand mixes materials and styles and plays with inlays and decorations. , putting together steel, brass and stone, obviously declined in its favorite color: pink.
The special edition "Tribute to Elsa" features a steel core, with a front in thin and imperceptible pink slate: forty unique pieces, enriched by a brass decoration placed on one side of the front that recalls the embroideries present in the collections of the years '30 of the stylist.
The special edition “Tribute to Elsa” paves the way for the new collection that Catuma will present in September 2015
