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Shocked, April 2013
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My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me
Knopf
April 2013
On Sale: April 2, 2013
304 pages ISBN: 0307962105 EAN: 9780307962102 Kindle: B009MYAQGI Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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.
Audrey’s daughter Patricia read Schiap’s
autobiography, Shocking Life, at a tender age, and
was transformed by it. These two women—volatile,
opinionated, and brilliant each in her own way—offered
Patricia contrasting lessons about womanhood and personal
style that allowed her to plot her own course.
Moving seamlessly between the Volks’ Manhattan and Florida
milieux and Schiap’s life in Rome and Paris (among friends
such as Dalí, Duchamp, and Picasso), Shocked weaves
Audrey’s traditional notions of domesticity with
Schiaparelli’s often outrageous ideas into a marvel-filled,
meditation on beauty, and on being a daughter, sister, and
mother, while demonstrating how a single book can change a life
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