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Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me

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UPC:
9780345803429
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2014-04-22
Release Date:
2014-04-22
Author:
Patricia Volk
Language:
english
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An NPR Best Book of the Year
APublishers WeeklyBest 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 beautymeticulously 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 motherand demonstrating, meanwhile, how a single book can change a life.