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By Genevieve Dammery In the midst of their rivalry, Coco Chanel once called her “that Italian artist who makes clothes”, but Elsa Schiaparelli understood that fashion could do more than dress the body. It could distort it, provoke it, and amuse it. At the V&A, Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art traces a career in which the conventional boundaries…