Shocked
Subtitle: My mother, Schiaparelli, and me
By: Patricia Volk
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780307962102; 9780307962119
Subjects: Family; Philosophy; Influence; Homes and haunts; Personal Beauty; Femininity; Mothers and daughters; Fashion designers; Biography
Description: 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.
Notes: "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: chapter one. Mirrors; title: chapter two. "The from above"; title: chapter three. A ring and a mink; title: chapter four. Something in common; title: chapter five. Gambling; title: chapter six. Manner of dress; title: chapter seven. The womanly arts; title: chapter eight. Friendship; title: chapter nine. Lingerie; title: chapter ten. Gainful employment; title: chapter eleven. The vicissitudes of beauty; title: chapter twelve. Improving the mind; title: chapter thirteen. Sex; title: chapter fourteen. Choosing a husband; title: chapter fifteen. Being a mother; title: chapter sixteen. Superstition; title: chapter seventeen. The Bogolometz; title: chapter eighteen. Reckoning; title: chapter nineteen. Through the looking glass; title: chapter twenty. Reflection.