Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me Contributor(s): Volk, Patricia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0345803426 ISBN-13: 9780345803429 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Family & Relationships | Parenting - Parent & Adult Child - Design | Fashion & Accessories |
Dewey: B |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.61 lbs) 304 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Family |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: An NPR Best Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year How does a girl fashion herself into a woman? In this richly illustrated memoir, writer Patricia Volk juxtaposes her two childhood idols to find her answer. Her mother, Audrey, was an upper-middle-class New Yorker and a great beauty--meticulously groomed, proudly conventional. Elsa Schiaparelli was an avant-garde fashion designer whose creations broke every rule and elevated clothing into art. While growing up in Audrey's strict household, Patricia read Schiap's freewheeling autobiography and was transformed by it. Shocked weaves Audrey's traditional notions of domesticity with Schiap's often outrageous ideas, giving us a revelatory meditation on beauty and on being a daughter, sister, and mother--and demonstrating, meanwhile, how a single book can change a life. |