The V&A celebrates the avant-garde artist in Schiaparelli

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“This exhibition is a gorgeous collision between a distant past and a very immediate present. We’re picking up where Elsa left off,” says Schiaparelli’s creative director Daniel Roseberry. The 40-year-old Texan designer is contemplating the time-warp impact of the V&A’s new show, Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art, which opens in London on 28 March. “Elsa was the first one…