Her sister, the renowned fashion photographer Regina Relang, provided many of the most iconic images of langani jewelry.
Schaad studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Stuttgart and in Vienna at the Wiener Werkstätte with Josef Hoffmann.
Between 1969 and 1989 she worked with Louis Feraud, Paris, and designed the jewelry for his haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion shows.
[4] langani continues to produce fashion jewelry in Stuttgart, Germany.
Schaad is said to have invented the "floating bead" technique in which beads are strung on nylon threads so that they appear to be dancing on the skin, but no patent was ever filed.