Shocking Life: The Autobiography of Elsa Schiaparelli

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Shocking — in her own words. Shocking Life is the autobiography of Elsa Schiaparelli, the Italian couturier whose surrealist collaborations with Dalí and Cocteau — the lobster dress, the shoe hat, the tears dress — made her Coco Chanel’s great rival and fashion’s resident provocateur-in-chief.

Schiaparelli recounts her rise from Roman aristocracy to the Parisian avant-garde: the trompe-l’oeil bow sweater that launched her, the Place Vendôme salon, the circus and zodiac collections, the wartime exile in America, the comeback attempts — all in a voice as bold, witty, and theatrical as her designs. She names names, settles old scores, dishes on the famous and the infamous alike, and never once bores the reader for a single page.

Wickedly entertaining and historically priceless, this is fashion’s most delightful memoir — essential for design lovers and anyone who believes, as Schiap did, that clothes should startle, amuse, and provoke rather than merely flatter.

Shocking Life: The Autobiography of Elsa Schiaparelli

Introduction to Shocking Life by Elsa Schiaparelli

The Woman Behind the Legend

Why Fashion Lovers Will Adore This Book

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