Shocking Life. The Autobiography of Elsa Schiaparelli
Most cleverly the V&A began some years ago to bring out new editions of memoirs by figures from the fashion world. I had no idea about this at the time, which is silly because that was my business, but I wasn't looking for contemporaneous memoirs. I snapped up Shocking Life in a museum shop last year, much impressed by its excellent design and lovely new cover art entirely in the spirit of Schiap herself. Schiap is what she called herself in the third person, and it is a feature of this 1954 […]https://katemacdonald.net/2026/06/16/shocking-life-the-autobiography-of-elsa-schiaparelli/




