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Elsa schiaparelli, italianborn fashion designer who established an important couture house in paris. Elsa schiaparelli was one of the leading fashion designers of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. What might people have found shocking about this dress. Paris i would come in and she would be in her bed, with all these heartshaped, shocking pink pillows, the actress marisa berenson said about her grandmother elsa schiaparelli. Join perlego now to get access to over 300,000 books. See her life in pictures born in rome in 1890, she had an eventful early adulthood involved writing a book of sensual poetry, a stint in a convent, and an affair with one of her university tutors. Shocking life, by elsa schiaparelli 1954 1st ed wrare. See elsa schiaparelli s life and career in pictures.
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