Fantastical frocks rule in off-the-peg Schiaparelli range

Man Ray collaboration inspires couture label’s leap to off-the-peg collectionCan you make surrealism real? That is the question for the house of Schiaparelli. The Paris couture house founded by Elsa Schiaparelli almost a century ago has launched its first collection of ready-to-wear clothes and handbags. For a label that has always celebrated the fantastical rather than the wearable, it is a concept almost as far fetched as Elsa Schiaparelli’s famous hat in the shape of an upturned s