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Woman's Evening Coat

Fall 1937
Designed by Elsa Schiaparelli (French (born Italy), 1890–1973) Designed in collaboration with Jean Cocteau (French, 1889–1963) Embroidered by Lesage, Paris (founded 1922)
The embroidery design illustrates Dalí's paranoiac-critical method, in which more than one possible meaning can be attached to the same image. Here, two faces in profile can also be viewed as a rose-filled urn set atop a fluted column.

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