Book 2013
Shocked
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- 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.