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Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Paris, 1938. Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli ("Schiap") are fighting for recognition as the most successful and influential fashion designer in France, and their rivalry is already legendary. They oppose each other at every turn, in both their politics and their designs: Chanel's are classic, elegant, and practical; Schiaparelli's bold, experimental, and surreal. Lily Cooper, a recently widowed American teacher, travels to Paris to visit her brother,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 377 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The first biography of the grand couturier, surrealist, and embattled figure (her medium was apparel), whose extraordinary work has stood the test of time"--
Author
Publisher
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
215 p. : ports. (some col.), photos (some col.), fronts. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Met's Spring 2012 Costume Institute exhibition, Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations, explores the striking affinities between Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, two Italian designers from different eras. Inspired by Miguel Covarrubia's "Impossible Interviews" for Vanity Fair in the 1930s, the exhibition features orchestrated conversations between these iconic women to suggest new readings of their most innovative work. Iconic ensembles...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
56 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and accomplishments of the fashion designer, from her early life of poverty, to her successes in the Paris fashion world, her collaboration with well-known artists of her day, and the influence of her innovative designs on later fashion.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
By the 1930s Elsa Schiaparelli had captivated the fashion world in Paris, but before that, she was a little girl in Rome who didn't feel pretty at all. Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli is the enchanting story for young readers of how a young girl used her imagination and emerged from plain to extraordinary.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
283 pages, [8] pages of plates ; illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shares the lessons about womanhood and personal style the author learned from both her mother, a New Yorker who was the polished hostess at her family's garment district restaurant, and Elsa Schiaparelli, the iconoclastic Italian fashion designer.
Author
Publisher
Rizzoli Ex Libris, an imprint of Rizzoli International Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
254 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the discovery of long-overlooked interviews conducted just before his death, this is the first biography of the visionary fashion designer Charles James. Christian Dior described him as the inspiration for the "New Look." Salvador Dalí called his work "soft sculpture," and Virginia Woolf exclaimed, "He is a genius." As George Bernard Shaw tells us, only unreasonable men change the world. This portrait of the life and times of Charles...
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