Shiaparelli's fascinating autobiography charts her rise from resident of a rat-infested apartment to designer to the stars. This publication will coincide with 'Surreal Things' at the V&A in March 2007.
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Shiaparelli's fascinating autobiography charts her rise from resident of a rat-infested apartment to designer to the stars. This publication will coincide with 'Surreal Things' at the V&A in March 2007.
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Add this copy of Shocking Life to cart. $29.69, very good condition, Sold by Solr Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincolnwood, IL, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Victoria & Albert Museum.
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Add this copy of Shocking Life to cart. $92.35, new condition, Sold by Just one more Chapter rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Miramar, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Victoria & Albert Museum.
Add this copy of Shocking Life to cart. $482.00, very good condition, Sold by Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA) rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chicago, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1954 by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
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Seller's Description:
Near fine condition. Very good-condition (DJ) Book. Octavo (8vo). x, 230 pages of text. Original pink hardcover binding in almost new condition. The original unclipped dustjacket has a chip to both the top and bottom of the spine, with several small tears and creases, and minor shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. Contains numerous color and black & white illustrations. The text is clean and unmarked. First British edition.
Add this copy of Shocking Life to cart. $1,257.00, very good condition, Sold by Last Exit Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Charlottesville, VA, UNITED STATES, published 1954 by E P Dutton & Co Inc.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. 1954. 254 pgs. Illustrated with Color / Black and White Plates. Signed and inscribed by Elsa Schiaparelli on the half-title page. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ chipped at the spine ends). Bound in black cloth boards with pink titles present to the front board and the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Her name was 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, feted in Rome (where she was born), Paris, New York, London, Moscow, Hollywood...Her style was a social revolution through clothing—luxurious, eccentric, ironic, sexy. Her fashions, inspired, from the whimsical to the most practical—from a Venetian cape of the commedia dell'arte to the Soviet parachute. She collaborated with some of the greatest artists of the twentieth century: on jewelry designs with Jean Schlumberger; on clothes with Salvador Dalí (his lobster dress for her, a lobster garnished with parsley painted on the skirt of an organdy dress, was instantly bought by Wallis Simpson for her honeymoon with the Duke of Windsor); with Jean Cocteau, Alberto Giacometti, Christian Bérard, photographers Baron Adolph de Meyer, Horst, Cecil Beaton, and the young Richard Avedon.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 254 pages.
Add this copy of Shocking Life to cart. $702.00, like new condition, Sold by Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Flemington, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1954 by Dutton.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Amazing Fine Copy In Like Jacket. Stated First Edition. $4.00 on Bottom of Flap. Ink Ownership Name. Incredibly Difficult Autobiography of Great Schiaparelli.
