Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me by Patricia Volk

My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me

Release date: April 2, 2013

From the acclaimed author of Stuffed: an intimate, richly illustrated memoir, written with charm and panache, that juxtaposes two fascinating lives—the iconoclastic designer Elsa Schiaparelli and the author’s own mother—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 family’s garment district restaurant. Elsa Schiaparelli—“Schiap”—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.

Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf (April 2, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307962105
ISBN-13: 978-0307962102

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