She was the first artist not afraid to introduce surrealist elements into her clothes. Andrew Bolton says: "Schiaparelli worked in the 1939s at the height of Surrealism and I think the Surrealist strategies of moving objects, the idea of ​​playing with scale was something that appealed a lot to the sense of Schiaparelli's game and his idea of ​​trying to expand the boundaries of fashion and what we mean by fashion” (Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations). Schiaparelli became even more popular thanks to her collaboration with Salvador Dali. She believed that fashion was also an art form. Victoria Pass wrote that Schiaparelli was "the woman who raged against the sky, creating a revolutionary style, blurring the lines between art and fashion (Pass, 1981). The author added of Schiaparelli's style: "Both Schiaparelli and the Surrealists used the strange confusion of incongruous elements to create convulsive beauty. This shared aesthetic connects Schiaparelli much more deeply to Surrealism than most fashion and art historians have yet recognized” (Pass, 2011 p234). In part, through his collaboration with Dali, surrealist fashion was explored, developed and practiced by many people today. artists until the present day "Dali's collaborations with Schiaparelli have transformed.