Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me

Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me

From the acclaimed author of Stuffed: an intimate, richly illustrated memoir, written with charm and panache, that juxtaposes two fascinating livesâ‚¬"the iconoclastic designer Elsa Schiaparelli and the authorâ‚¬s own motherâ‚¬"to explore how a girl fashions herself into a woman.

Audrey Morgen Volk, an upper-middle-class New Yorker, was a great beauty and the polished hostess at her familyâ‚¬s garment district restaurant. Elsa Schiaparelliâ‚¬"â‚¬Å“Schiapâ‚¬Ââ‚¬"the haute couture designer whose creations shocked the world, blurred the line between fashion and art, and believed that everything, even a button, has the potential to delight.

Audreyâ‚¬s daughter Patricia read Schiapâ‚¬s autobiography, Shocking Life, at a tender age, and was transformed by it. These two womenâ‚¬"volatile, opinionated, and brilliant each in her own wayâ‚¬"offered Patricia contrasting lessons about womanhood and personal style that allowed her to plot her own course.

Moving seamlessly between the Volksâ‚¬ Manhattan and Florida milieux and Schiapâ‚¬s life in Rome and Paris (among friends such as DalÂ, Duchamp, and Picasso), Shocked weaves Audreyâ‚¬s traditional notions of domesticity with Schiaparelliâ‚¬s often outrageous ideas into a marvel-filled, meditation on beauty, and on being a daughter, sister, and mother, while demonstrating how a single book can change a life.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2013-04-02
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780307962102

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2013-04-02
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780307962102

Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me

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