De Senneville

Elisabeth (1946). French designer, born in Paris, where she studied the fine arts. She made her début in fashion designing models for the department store Printemps. She designed her first Collection in 1972. She worked as a designer for several manufacturing companies, for the mail order company 3 Suisse, and for Fiorucci. She is considered the French advocate of Pop Art fashion and the one who really shook up the styles of the 1970s and 1980s. She was the most inspired designer of the time in combining art and fashion, and was the first to exhibit the graphic creations of Bazooka, a group formed by Loulou and Kiki Picasso, along with her clothes. Inspired by communist China, she designed the blue overalls for workers that became real bestsellers. She was among the first to use thermal materials which change their color according to the light, and, among the many ideas of those years, she was the one who used materials created for astronauts. After a difficult financial period, she re-emerged on the Paris scene in 1995.