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The little book of Schiaparelli / Emma Baxter-Wright.

by Baxter-Wright, Emma.

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Carlton Books, 2012.

746.92092 S329b

Schiaparelli, Elsa, 1890-1973.

Women fashion designers -- France -- Biography.

Fashion designers -- France -- Biography.

Fashion design -- France -- History -- 20th century.

Surrealism and design.

9781780971315 (hc.)

1780971311 (hc.)

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159 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 156) and index.

Elsa Schiaparelli -- one of history's most influential and eccentric couturiers. Endowed with a strikingly imaginative and experimental approach to fashion, she cultivated the combination of the witty and the surreal, the cutting edge and the elegant, from her jewellery and shoe designs to her collaborations with Salvador Dali, Jean Cocteau and Alberto Giacometti. Her life and career, collaborations and themes such as surrealism, her use of colour and her perfume line. Photographs of her finished designs, along with close-up details, and illustrations of her personal sketches showcasing the brilliancy of her innovation. Elsa Luisa Maria Schiaparelli was born at the Palazzo Corsini in Rome. She lived for a while in England, where she married a fraudulent psychic practitioner, then moved to France where she began her career in fashion design.

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