Cover of Shocked

Book 2013

Shocked

4.01 4 readers shelved it

Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Language
English
Published
2013
  • Family
  • Philosophy
  • Influence
  • Homes and haunts
  • Personal Beauty
  • Femininity
  • Mothers and daughters
  • Fashion designers

From the acclaimed author of Stuffed: an intimate, richly illustrated memoir that juxtaposes two fascinating lives -- the iconoclastic designer Elsa Schiaparelli and the author's own mother, Audrey Morgen Volk, an upper-middle-class New Yorker -- to explore how a girl fashions herself into a woman.