Elsa Schiaparelli - A Biography

Author(s): Meryle Secrest

WRITING ON FASHION | TALES FROM THE FASHION WORLD

"A wonderful insight into a life that history hasn't remembered as well as it should have." (Vogue). One of the most extraordinary fashion designers of the twentieth century, Elsa Schiaparelli was an integral figure in the artistic movement of the times. Her collaborations with artists such as Man Ray, Salvador Dali, Jean Cocteau, and Alberto Giacometti elevated the field of women's clothing design into the realm of art. Her story is one of pluck, determination, and talent with scandal as spice. As the daughter of minor Italian nobility whose disastrous first marriage to a Theosophist caused near penury, she transformed herself into a designer of great imagination and, along with Coco Chanel, her greatest rival, she was one of the few female figures in the field at that time.


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  • : 9780241966860
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : July 2015
  • : October 2015
  • : books

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  • : Meryle Secrest
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : 400