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product_id: 8016925
title: "Shocking Life Paperback – March 1, 2007"
brand: "elsa schiaparelli"
price: "€ 406.39"
currency: EUR
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reviews_count: 13
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# Shocking Life Paperback – March 1, 2007

**Brand:** elsa schiaparelli
**Price:** € 406.39
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Shocking Life Paperback – March 1, 2007 by elsa schiaparelli
- **How much does it cost?** € 406.39 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Customer Reviews

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    You left wandering where the 'shocking' was left....
  

*by G***Z on Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2009*

For a fashion designer that in her time invented the newspaper print, the bottle perfume made as a little body -now copied by Gaultier-, the first zipper in a haute couture dress and a variety of items from hats to shoes and dresses inspired by surrealism and dada, this autobiography lacks of real interest in design and fashion.Have you ever met such a lady so fascinated with herself that she always thinks everything she does from open a beer can to walk her dog is a world event? This is precisely the case here. Even when is not boring to read, Elsa seem to forget her real contribution to fashion design, and then what we get is a collection of traveling and social acquaintances. Once and then she just drop, 'and that was the time when I made the Roi Soleil -a perfume with a bottle designed by Dali, commemorative of the end of french occupation-' or I made a hat....Her quite serendipitious arrive to fashion design when she order a knitted sweater to be made on her with a big ribbon drawn in the front by some armenian woman, was spotted in the street and get an order for dozens of them, was then continued by a career of many extravagancies -skeletons, lobster dress, a shoe-hat, that made her in that times more famous than Coco Chanel.She stopped her career after the world war, when she was not able to be in tone with the zeitgeist and went into oblivion, when you read this book and just have the vague mention of Marcel Duchamp -his lover Maria Martins-, Dali, Paul Poiret, Greta Garbo, Lucien Lelong, even Chanel and Dior, but never get any interesting detail about them, you start to realize that maybe Elsa was to much intoxicated by herself to even be aware of the extraordinary presences she has in front of her eyes. And left guessing if she was just extraordinary lucky to be at the right time and place with a knitted sweater and drawn ribbon. By a very strange self censorship we do not get even the slightly glimpse into her love life or any spicy anecdote about anyone in the surroundings either!it has some little pages with a few black and white photographs of her, her dogs and daughter -never the dresses- and at the end of each chapter a cute fashion drawing made by herself.Nevertheless can be read easily and stands as a portrait of the time between the wars in Europe and America... if only she would stop and tell us a little about her process, how she get inspired, what she thought about the garment construction, how she organized the atelier, etc. then it would be something of real interest for the designer and the aficionado, and not just a curiosity of interest only for the fashion historian -like me-.

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    Love fashion and love Schiaparelli (pronounced Scap-a-relli
  

*by C***N on Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2014*

Love fashion and love Schiaparelli (pronounced Scap-a-relli. If you like history and the 1930's evolution of fashion, you will love reading about Elsa's life. My favorite dress is her "Skeleton" dress that shocked many people in it's time. It was considered vulgar back then. She was definitely ahead of her time. What a creative designer she was. Of couse she was, she was Italian!

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    Truly first edition!
  

*by L***A on Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2020*

I loved the purchase, the book was very old, but it the original first edition with hardcover!

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