Elsa Schiaparelli
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- Titel: Elsa Schiaparelli : A Biography / Meryle Secrest
- Person(en): Secrest, Meryle
- Sprache: Englisch
- Originalsprache: Englisch
- Umfang: 1 online resource
- Erschienen: 2014
- ISBN/Preis: 9780385353274 (electronic bk)
- Schlagwörter: Nonfiction ; Art ; Biography & Autobiography ; History ; Electronic books
- Link(s): http://elibraryhh.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=FC60B526-AAD7-410E-9EAD-419268C06AC2 Excerpt
Inhalt: 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...
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