Schiaparelli review – it’s cocktail o’clock with fashion’s surreal goddess who out-lobstered Dalí and turned a polar bear pink

V&A South Kensington, London The Italian designer loved to shock and this dazzling show is like sashaying through a party in 1930s Paris with Schiap and her darling friends Cocteau and Dalí Naked mermaids and prancing horses, silk carrots and unshelled peanuts, gilded elephant trunks, drums and masks – and those are just a few of the buttons. The V&A’s lavish spring show is a weird and wonderful tumble down the rabbit hole that is Schiaparelli, fashion’s house of surrealism. Elsa Schiaparell...

By Jess Cartner-Morley