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Shocking! The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli by Dilys Blum, Dilys E. Blum
This is a huge fabulous book full of fantastic shots and stories about the kooky and very glamourous Elsa Schiparelli who, they say, invented the colour shocking pink. Her theory was if you weren’t a babe you may as well dress in clothes that would get you the same attention. “She gave women unusual textures, eccentric patterns and surprising shapes influenced by the Surrealist artists in her circle. A frustrated sculptor, Schiaparelli invested many of her garments with an architectural quality, from aerodynamic, back-swept bustles and overskirts dramatically curved back over themselves to stiff, fan-shaped peplums. She created a hat in the shape of an upside-down shoe, made comfy leopard-skin booties, and incorporated such novelties as monkey fur and Rhodophane, a transparent man-made fabric. At her most eccentric, inspired by the artist Man Ray, Schiaparelli produced suede gloves with red snakeskin fingernails” Amazon (I need those gloves)
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