Shocking LifeElsa Schiaparelli was one of the leading fashion designers of the 1920s, '30s, and '40s. Her fascinating autobiography, charts her rise from a rat-infested apartment in Rome, to success in fashion, through the war years when she worked for the American Red Cross, to her eventual role as designer to the stars. |
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Page 54
... things for him , giving her just enough work . In this work , with her great love of beautiful things , she acquired a little knowledge . It also gave her time to take Gogo out for short walks , walks that she could manage . Thus Gogo ...
... things for him , giving her just enough work . In this work , with her great love of beautiful things , she acquired a little knowledge . It also gave her time to take Gogo out for short walks , walks that she could manage . Thus Gogo ...
Page 92
... thing : " Madame la Marquise , n'est - ce pas , fait aussi de la peinture , and this thing .... " He threw up his hands in horror . The screen was a beauty , and one of the best things that Bebe ever did . He had put immense feeling and ...
... thing : " Madame la Marquise , n'est - ce pas , fait aussi de la peinture , and this thing .... " He threw up his hands in horror . The screen was a beauty , and one of the best things that Bebe ever did . He had put immense feeling and ...
Page 191
... things such as pins and needles . I had brought over so many with me that I might have been disguised as a pin- cushion . What I chiefly admired in Paris was the way they had invoked fantasy to carry on . At this moment of restriction ...
... things such as pins and needles . I had brought over so many with me that I might have been disguised as a pin- cushion . What I chiefly admired in Paris was the way they had invoked fantasy to carry on . At this moment of restriction ...
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