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Shocking! The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli
by Dilys Blum.
Yale/Philadelphia Museum of Art, 320 pp., £45, November 2003,0 300 10066 3 Show More
by Dilys Blum.
Yale/Philadelphia Museum of Art, 320 pp., £45, November 2003,
“... details and visual puns. If there is more to be known about her as an individual, it is not Dilys Blum’s ambition to discover it. Her book, written to accompany an exhibition – she is curator of Costume and Textiles at the Philadelphia Museum – is a detailed and scholarly chronicle of the couturière but makes no attempt to break new ... ”
