From 1928 to 1930, the Russian-born writer Elsa Triolet designed and made necklaces that her partner Louis Aragon, co-founder of the surrealist journal Littérature, offered to Elsa Schiaparelli. Man Ray photographed the most famous of these jewels, the aspirin necklace, composed of porcelain beads shaped similarly to aspirin tablets.

Elsa Triolet recounted this episode of her life in her essay published in 1933, Colliers.