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Elsa Schiaparelli : a biography / Meryle Secrest.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection TT505.S3 S43 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Secrest, Meryle, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schiaparelli, Elsa, 1890-1973.
- Schiaparelli, Elsa.
- Fashion designers--Italy--Biography.
- Fashion designers.
- Women fashion designers--Italy--Biography.
- Women fashion designers.
- Surrealism and design.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 377 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2014]
- Summary:
- "The first biography of the grand couturier, surrealist, and embattled figure (her medium was apparel), whose extraordinary work has stood the test of time"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-360) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780307701596 ;
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