Shocking!: The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli

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Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) was the premier style arbiter of the 1930s - a favorite designer of women who made the best-dressed list, of female sports heroes, and of film and theater actresses. This book is the first comprehensive look at the work of this startling and innovative Paris fashion designer.

Shocking! explores the Italian-born designer's career from its modernist beginnings in the 1920s and its connections with Surrealism to the upheavals caused by war, the ...

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2003 Hard Cover First Edition As New in As New jacket Hardcover 1st Ed 1st Printing AS NEW, Fine in Near Fine, no remainder or other markings, trace edge wear to jacket & tiny ... closed tear at spine tail, else Fine (dj in mylar)-becoming quite scarce, especially in such nice shape; folio; 320pp indexed & illus. SIGNIFICANT extra shipping charge REQUIRED for overseas delivery of this very heavy oversize book. Read more Show Less

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Overview

Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) was the premier style arbiter of the 1930s - a favorite designer of women who made the best-dressed list, of female sports heroes, and of film and theater actresses. This book is the first comprehensive look at the work of this startling and innovative Paris fashion designer.

Shocking! explores the Italian-born designer's career from its modernist beginnings in the 1920s and its connections with Surrealism to the upheavals caused by war, the business struggles in the years that followed, and the closing of her salon in 1954.

With over three hundred reproductions of Schiaparelli clothing and accessories, this book includes the extensive group of objects given by the designer herself to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1969 as well as contemporary photographs documenting Schiaparelli's salons, homes, and designs: patent office drawings; fashion sketches; works by the period's leading fashion photographers such as Horst and Cecil Beaton; works of art that complemented, influenced, or were influenced by her designs; and stills from many of the American, British, and French films and plays with which she was associated.

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In the lavishly illustrated Shocking! The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli, Dilys E. Blum, the curator of costume and textiles at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, persuasively argues that Schiaparelli was an artist no less than a designer -- and not only because of her collaborations with Dalí, Cocteau and Man Ray. Her Spanish rival, Balenciaga, considered Schiaparelli ''the only real artist in the couture.'' — David Kaufman
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Innovative, daring, and even shocking, Italian-born Paris designer Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) was the preferred fashion designer to the stars of ballet, theater, opera, royalty, high society, female sports heroes, and everyday modern women from 1927 until 1954. She pushed the envelope of acceptable women's fashion, casual wear, and accessories while creating an international following for her signature trompe l'oeil bow-knot sweaters, culottes, padded shoulders, and exposed plastic zippers. In brief essays, Blum (curator of costumes and textiles, Philadelphia Museum of Art) chronicles the design career of this remarkable woman. Organized chronologically as well as thematically, the book serves as the catalog of an exhibition of Schiaparelli's creations showing at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through January 4, 2004. The detailed illustrations and drawings (more than 300 in color and black-and-white) highlight the dynamic range of her creations, from the lawn tennis skirt of Lili de Alvarez to the surrealist costumes photographed by Man Ray and Cecil Beaton, among others. Also featured is a complete listing of the films and theatrical productions Schiaparelli costumed. A welcome addition to collections focusing on design, decorative arts, and fashion.-Stephen Allan Patrick, East Tennessee State Univ. Libs., Johnson City Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780300100662
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publication date: 9/28/2003
  • Pages: 320
  • Product dimensions: 10.88 (w) x 13.46 (h) x 1.22 (d)

Table of Contents

Lenders to the Exhibition 6
Foreword 7
Preface 8
The Beginning 10
Pour le Sport 12
Architect of Fashion, Carpenter of Clothes 32
In the Shadow of Napoleon 70
After Dark 100
Art into Fashion, Fashion into Art 120
Metamorphosis 150
Six Collections 168
The Circus Comes to Town
A Pagan Collection
Lucky Stars
A Modern Comedy
Return to the Bustle
Music in the Air
A Matter of Prestige 220
Themes and Variations 248
Dressing for Film and Stage 288
Stylistic and Historical Chronology 292
Sources Consulted 302
List of Illustrations 306
Selected Bibliography 315
Acknowledgments 316
Index of Names 319
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