Elsa Schiaparelli

Elsa Schiaparelli
By:Meryle Secrest
Published on 2014-10-07 by Knopf

The first biography of the grand couturier, surrealist, and embattled figure (her medium was apparel), whose extraordinary work has stood the test of time. Her style was a social revolution through clothing-luxurious, eccentric, ironic, sexy; synonymous with fashion innovation and chicesse. She was audacious; her fashions were inspired from the whimsical to the most practical-from a Venetian cape of the commedia dell'arte to a Soviet parachute. She collaborated on her designs with some of the greatest artists of the twentieth-century: on jewelry with Jean Schlumberger; on clothes with Salvador Dalí; with Jean Cocteau, Alberto Giacometti; with photographers Man Ray, Horst, Cecil Beaton, and the young Richard Avedon. Her name: 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; she gave fabulous parties-and went to those given by others; she lived and worked seriously and hard in much-photographed residences and was a guest at others; she knew the |everybodies| who were always |there| and inevitably became one of them herself, feted in Rome (where she was born), Paris, New York, London, Moscow, Dallas, Hollywood, Dublin. Now, Meryle Secrest, acclaimed biographer-whose work has been called |enthralling| (WSJ); |captivating| (WP Book World); |Rich in detail, scrupulously researched, sympathetically written| (NYRB), and who has captured the lives of many of the twentieth-century's most iconic, cultural figures, among them: Frank Lloyd Wright, Bernard Berenson, Leonard Bernstein, Duveen; Richard Rodgers; Modigliani; Stephen Sondheim-gives us the never-before-told story of this most extraordinary fashion designer, perhaps the most extraordinary fashion designer of the twentieth-century, who in her time was more famous than Chanel.

This Book was ranked at 37 by Google Books for keyword mcqueen the biography.

Book ID of Elsa Schiaparelli's Books is 3TNcAwAAQBAJ, Book which was written byMeryle Secresthave ETAG "lT2DR0/2rlI"

Book which was published by Knopf since 2014-10-07 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780385353274 and ISBN 10 Code is 0385353278

Reading Mode in Text Status is true and Reading Mode in Image Status is false

Book which have "400 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryBiography and Autobiography

This Book was rated by Raters and have average rate at ""

This eBook Maturity (Adult Book) status is NOT_MATURE

Book was written in en

eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is true

Book Preview