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These intriguing ornamental buttons are strikingly similar to the form of the bottle of the perfume "Sleeping," introduced for Schiaparelli's summer 1940 collection. The bottle was shaped like a lighted candle emerging from a floral-shaped base and perhaps these ornamental buttons were a precursor to the final perfume bottle design, or a stylized version of it. Schiaparelli used her buttons as an avenue for creative expression. They were often in unexpected shapes made of unusual and avant-garde materials such as the plastic, glass, painted metal alloy and wire of this example. They complemented her suit jackets with the perfect dose of Surrealist commentary.
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