In May 1935, Man Ray took this portrait of Nusch Eluard, wife of the surrealist poet Paul Eluard. She is wearing a Schiaparelli sari-dress from the Stop, Look and Listen collection presented in February 1935.

Inspired by Indian design, this dress, made of electric blue or desert pink rayon crepe, was accompanied by a stole, or irham, which could cover the head like a veil. It was fastened at the small of the back with a large gold-stamped clip.

In this photograph, Nusch Eluard holds a Schiaparelli fan in sparkling "glass" made of cellophane fabric, Rhodophane; a small vanity case in the shape of a golden egg hangs from his left wrist.