Elsa Schiaparelli : a biography
(2014)
By:
Secrest, Meryle
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/SCHIAPARELLI,E
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xx, 377 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780307701596 (hbk.), 030770159X (hbk.), 9780307701596
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Includes index
The orphan -- The Piccadilly faker -- Themes of love and death -- Murder and mayhem -- Coq feathers -- Comet -- The boutique fantasque -- Shock in pink -- Scandalous schiap -- The "collabo" -- Wearing two hats -- Picking up the arrow -- A bird in the cage
"The first biography of the grand couturier, surrealist, and embattled figure (her medium was apparel), whose extraordinary work has stood the test of time"--