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Meryle Secrest
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  • ISBN 9780241966860
  • Format: Paperback
  • Weight: 302g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 25mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Aug 2015
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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'A wonderful insight into a life that history hasn't remembered as well as it should have.' - Vogue

One of the most extraordinary fashion designers of the twentieth century, Elsa Schiaparelli was an integral figure in the artistic movement of the times. Her collaborations with artists such as Man Ray, Salvador Dalí, Jean Cocteau, and Alberto Giacometti elevated the field of women's clothing design into the realm of art.

Her story is one of pluck, determination, and talent with scandal as spice. As the daughter of minor Italian nobility whose disastrous first marriage to a Theosophist caused near penury, she transformed herself into a designer of great imagination and, along with Coco Chanel, her greatest rival, she was one of the few female figures in the field at that time.
About Meryle Secrest
Meryle Secrest was born and educated in Bath, England, and lives in Washington, D.C. She is the author of Between Me and Life: A Biography of Romaine Brooks, Being Bernard Berenson, Kenneth Clark: A Biography, Salvador Dalí, Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography, Leonard Bernstein: A Life, Stephen Sondheim: A Life, Somewhere for Me: A Biography of Richard Rodgers, Duveen: A Life in Art, and Modigliani: A Life, and is the recipient of the 2006 National Humanities Medal.

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