"... rather,
she commissioned Cartier to make her a Big Dipper brooch, with diamonds for stars, mirroring the pattern of the moles on her face. Instead of the classic fur coat that Audrey Volk swore by, [Elsa] Schiaparelli designed high-heeled ocelot fur bowling shoes, as well as a hat made out of the taxidermied face of a cheetah whose open mouth looked like it was swallowing Schiaparelli's head."
From an NPR story about Patricia Volk's new book
"Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me."
And here's Elsa Schiaparelli's own book
"Shocking Life."
The "shocking" business relates to the "shocking pink," the shade of pink used on the box for
Schiaparelli's perfume named Shocking, which came out in 1937, when it was possible for a magazine advertisement to look like this:
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Very prescient! Ads warning us of Red "Donkey" Democrat Commie traitors.
If only we listened. . .
Wearing the head of a Cheetah on one's head is also out of style.
She belonged to the time between the wars...Al Stewart's album "Between the Wars".
http://al-stewart.freedownloadmp3.net/between-the-wars/
It seems art students have been wearing vintage dresses and smoking for quite awhile. Was it annoying and pretentious then too?
At times the essential craziness of the female goes overt, as in Shiaperelli...and Sebelius. Catch the picture of Sibelius, of course attempting to blame the GOP for the unfolding catastrophe that is Obamacare, on Drudge. If that isn't the picture of a walking horror I don't know what is.
Wha...?
"Taxidermied"? Writers who verb nouns should be deathed.
I have no idea what any of this means.
Wasn't Elsa the grandmother of Marissa and Berry Berenson?
Wasn't Elsa the grandmother of Marissa and Berry Berenson?
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