"Shocking Life" 1954 Schiaparelli, Elsa

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SCHIAPARELLI, Elsa

[254] pp.

E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.

1954

Tailpieces by Berard

First Edition

8 3/8" x 6"

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[254] pp.

E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.

1954

Tailpieces by Berard

First Edition

8 3/8" x 6"

Her name was Elsa Schiaparelli. She was known as the Queen of Fashion; a headline attraction in the international glitter-glamour show of the late twenties and thirties, feted in Rome (where she was born), Paris, New York, London, Moscow, Hollywood . . . Her style was a social revolution through clothing luxurious, eccentric, ironic, sexy. Her fashions, inspired, from the whimsical to the most practical from a Venetian cape of the commedia dell'arte to the Soviet parachute. She collaborated with some of the greatest artists of the twentieth century: on jewelry designs with Jean Schlumberger; on clothes with Salvador Dalí (his lobster dress for her, a lobster garnished with parsley painted on the skirt of an organdy dress, was instantly bought by Wallis Simpson for her honeymoon with the Duke of Windsor) ; with Jean Cocteau, Alberto Giacometti, Christian Bérard, photographers Baron Adolph de Meyer, Horst, Cecil Beaton, and the young Richard Avedon. See less