Featuring 520 works set against 248 paintings, sculptures, jewellery, perfume bottles, ceramics, posters and photographs, the exhibition Shocking! The Surreal Worlds of Elsa Schiaparelli not only manages to affirm Elsa Schiaparelli as one of the most prominent fashion figures in the decades between the two world wars, but it also delivers a reminder on fashion-as-art, a position, on one side firmly distanced from today's globalised, accelerated and hyper-industrialised system of fashion ideation, production and consumption, while on another, implicative of fashion as related to certain privilege, status and class.