Title: Shocked
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.
Subjects: Family, Philosophy, Influence, Homes and haunts, Personal Beauty, Femininity, Mothers and daughters, Fashion designers, Biography, Beauty, personal, Women, united states, biography
Places: United States, Paris, France
People: Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973), Audrey Morgen Volk, Patricia Volk