Fashion is a chimerical creature. It takes many guises, and fashion models, as actors, must assume a different role many times over to fulfil the expectations put upon them – half woman, half fantasy creature. There has always been a close connection between fashion and art, possibly most famously in the time of Surrealism, when designers like Elsa Schiaparelli collaborated with artists of the period such as Meret Oppenheim and Salvador Dali, and Surrealist photographers such as Man Ray worked with top fashion models such as Lee Miller. Fashion illustrators such as Milena Pavlovic Barilli took inspiration from the movement, with the result that more literal chimera began to appear on the pages of fashion magazines. It was a time of great playfulness and imagination in fashion. (http://contemporarybalkanart.com/model-chimera-surrealism-fashion/)