Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography
Italian Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) was one of the most successful dress designers of the 20th century. Her colourful life story is vividly described in this entertaining book by prolific biographer, Meryle Secrest.
Schiaparelli’s heyday was in the 1920s and ’30s. During the Second World War, she fled from her home in Paris to New York, and stayed there until liberation in 1944. Her designs were influenced by surrealism, the new art form that surfaced after the First World War, and she collaborated with artists such as Salvador Dali and Man Ray.
