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The first biography of the grand couturier; surrealist; and embattled figure (her medium was apparel); whose extraordinary work has stood the test of time.Her style was a social revolution through clothing-luxurious; eccentric; ironic; sexy; synonymous with fashion innovation and chicesse. She was audacious; her fashions were inspired from the whimsical to the most practical-from a Venetian cape of the commedia dellarte to a Soviet parachute. She collaborated on her designs with some of the greatest artists of the twentieth-century: on jewelry with Jean Schlumberger; on clothes with Salvador Daliacute;; with Jean Cocteau; Alberto Giacometti; with photographers Man Ray; Horst; Cecil Beaton; and the young Richard Avedon. Her name: Elsa Schiaparelli. She was known as the Queen of Fashion; a headline attraction in the international glitter-glamour show of the late twenties and thirties; she gave fabulous parties-and went to those given by others; she lived and worked seriously and hard in much-photographed residences and was a guest at others; she knew the "everybodies" who were always "there" and inevitably became one of them herself; feted in Rome (where she was born); Paris; New York; London; Moscow; Dallas; Hollywood; Dublin. Now; Meryle Secrest; acclaimed biographer-whose work has been called "enthralling" (WSJ); "captivating" (WP Book World); "Rich in detail; scrupulously researched; sympathetically written" (NYRB); and who has captured the lives of many of the twentieth-centurys most iconic; cultural figures; among them: Frank Lloyd Wright; Bernard Berenson; Leonard Bernstein; Duveen; Richard Rodgers; Modigliani; Stephen Sondheim-gives us the never-before-told story of this most extraordinary fashion designer; perhaps the most extraordinary fashion designer of the twentieth-century; who in her time was more famous than Chanel.