

An edition of Shocking life (1954)
By Elsa Schiaparelli
Publish Date
March 1, 2007
Publisher
Victoria & Albert Museum
Language
eng
Pages
235
Description:
Elsa Schiaparelli was one of the leading fashion designers of the 1920s, '30s, and '40s. Her fascinating autobiography, charts her rise from a rat-infested apartment in Rome, to success in fashion, through the war years when she worked for the American Red Cross, to her eventual role as designer to the stars.