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Knopf
October 2014
On Sale: October 7, 2014
Featuring: Elsa Schiaparelli
400 pages
ISBN: 030770159X
EAN: 9780307701596
Kindle: B00JNQKQXI
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography
The first biography of the grand couturier, surrealist,
and embattled figure (her medium was apparel), whose
extraordinary work has stood the test of time. Her style was a social revolution through
clothing-luxurious, eccentric, ironic, sexy; synonymous with
fashion innovation and chicesse. She was audacious; her
fashions were inspired from the whimsical to the most
practical-from a Venetian cape of the commedia dell'arte to
a Soviet parachute. She collaborated on her designs with
some of the greatest artists of the twentieth-century: on
jewelry with Jean Schlumberger; on clothes with Salvador
Dalí; with Jean Cocteau, Alberto Giacometti; with
photographers Man Ray, Horst, Cecil Beaton, and the young
Richard Avedon. Her name: 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; she gave fabulous parties-and went to
those given by others; she lived and worked seriously and
hard in much-photographed residences and was a guest at
others; she knew the "everybodies" who were always "there"
and inevitably became one of them herself, feted in Rome
(where she was born), Paris, New York, London, Moscow,
Dallas, Hollywood, Dublin. Now, Meryle Secrest, acclaimed biographer-whose work has
been called "enthralling" (WSJ); "captivating" (WP
Book World); "Rich in detail, scrupulously researched,
sympathetically written" (NYRB), and who has captured
the lives of many of the twentieth-century's most iconic,
cultural figures, among them: Frank Lloyd Wright, Bernard
Berenson, Leonard Bernstein, Duveen; Richard Rodgers;
Modigliani; Stephen Sondheim-gives us the never-before-told
story of this most extraordinary fashion designer,
perhaps the most extraordinary fashion
designer of the twentieth-century, who in her time was more
famous than Chanel.
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