In this portrait of Elsa Schiaparelli painted by the artist Marcel Vertès, the designer is wearing one of the outfits from her Haute Couture collection Le Cirque de l'Été 1938.

Vertès created other very personal works for his friend Elsa Schiaparelli such as a screen on the themes of the collections La Comedia dell'Arte and Le Cirque, or a gigantic collage retracing Elsa's creations and the main symbols that characterized her work.