Shiaparelli's fascinating autobiography charts her rise from resident of a rat-infested apartment to designer to the stars. This publication will coincide with 'Surreal Things' at the V&A in March 2007.
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Shiaparelli's fascinating autobiography charts her rise from resident of a rat-infested apartment to designer to the stars. This publication will coincide with 'Surreal Things' at the V&A in March 2007.
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Add this copy of Shocking Life to cart. $29.39, fair condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1954 by J.M. Dent & Sons.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 700grams, ISBN:
Add this copy of Shocking Life to cart. $33.98, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Victoria & Albert Museum.
Add this copy of Shocking Life to cart. $53.78, new condition, Sold by Just one more Chapter rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Miramar, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Victoria & Albert Museum.
Add this copy of Shocking Life to cart. $118.79, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Victoria & Albert Museum.
Add this copy of Shocking Life to cart. $475.00, very good condition, Sold by Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA) rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chicago, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1954 by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
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Near fine condition. Very good-condition (DJ) Book. Octavo (8vo). x, 230 pages of text. Original pink hardcover binding in almost new condition. The original unclipped dustjacket has a chip to both the top and bottom of the spine, with several small tears and creases, and minor shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. Contains numerous color and black & white illustrations. The text is clean and unmarked. First British edition.
Add this copy of Shocking Life to cart. $553.00, very good condition, Sold by Bruce Davidson Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Arlington, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1954 by E. P. Dutton & Co.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Signed by Author(s) First printing. Black cloth with lettering in shocking pink and shocking pink dustjacket. Inscribed and SIGNED by the author on the half title page. (It's difficult to decipher the inscription--her penmanship was atrocious--but it appears to be: Thank you for your friendship, or something like that). The book is in very good condition. The dustjacket is edgeworn, to include a 1" chip to top of the spine and a smaller chip to the bottom. Not priceclipped and no markings. Born in Italy, the author was the leading Parisian fashion designer in the 1920s and 30s, an interesting time and place, to say the least. Signed copies of her memoir are quite scarce.
Add this copy of Shocking Life to cart. $695.00, like new condition, Sold by Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Flemington, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1954 by Dutton.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket. First Edition Stated. Rare in This Condition. Elusive Autobiography of The Great Designer.
Add this copy of Shocking Life to cart. $1,250.00, very good condition, Sold by Last Exit Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Charlottesville, VA, UNITED STATES, published 1954 by E P Dutton & Co Inc.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. 1954. 254 pgs. Illustrated with Color / Black and White Plates. Signed and inscribed by Elsa Schiaparelli on the half-title page. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ chipped at the spine ends). Bound in black cloth boards with pink titles present to the front board and the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. 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 Avedon.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 254 pages.
