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Shocking life

Elsa 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

Print Book, English, 1954
First edition
E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1954