THE ART OF BEING A WOMAN: MY MOTHER, ELSA SCHIAPARELLI AND ME (US TITLE: SHOCKED)

Book ID/图书代码： 12844013B59953

English Summary/英文概要： Audrey Morgen Volk, an upper middle class New Yorker, was a great beauty, a lover of jewelry and fashion, and the polished hostess at her family’s garment district restaurant. Elsa Schiaparelli, who invented the color Shocking Pink and created fashions that shocked the world, was a cultural revolutionary and provocateur with a razor-sharp wit. Overlooked by her parents because of her middling looks, "Schiap" married a count and in the 1930s became a renowned haute couturier. She broke every rule, blurring the line between fashion and art, adopting the Surrealist aesthetic in ways that anticipated fashion rebels like Madonna and Alexander McQueen. Schiap believed that in fashion and in life, everything--even a button--has the potential to delight. For Audrey’s daughter Patricia, who read Schiap’s autobiography ‘Shocking Life’ at a tender age, these two women offered contrasting lessons about womanhood and personal style that would stay with her all her life. Moving seamlessly between the Volks’ Manhattan and Florida homes and Schiap’s astonishing life in Rome and Paris (among pals like Dali, Duchamp, Picasso), HOW TO BE A WOMAN weaves Audrey’s notions of traditional domesticity with Schiap’s outrageous creations—her Lobster Dress and shoe-shaped hat--to create a brilliant meditation on fashion, then and now; and on being a daughter, sister, and mother. With more than 120 illustrations, this wise and delightful memoir has the appeal of an intimate scrapbook as it explores how a girl fashions herself into a woman. It is Volk’s best book yet.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 奥黛丽摩根沃克，一位中上阶层的纽约人，是一位绝色美女，她热衷珠宝和时尚，而且她还是家里服装区餐厅的一位优美的女主人。艾尔萨夏帕瑞丽发明了鲜粉红色并且创造了震惊世界的时尚，她是一位拥有敏锐才智的文化革命者和推动者。由于她相貌平平，所以她的父母忽视了她的才华，“夏帕”嫁给了一位伯爵并且在20世纪30年代的时候，成为了一名著名的高级女装设计师。她打破常规，将时尚和艺术糅合在一起，采用超现实主义美学的方式来预测时尚界的领军人物像麦当娜和亚历山大•麦克奎恩。夏帕相信在时尚和生活中,一切事物——甚至一粒纽扣——都有可能激发快乐。对于奥黛丽的女儿帕特丽夏来说，她在幼年的时候阅读了夏帕的自传“令人震惊的生活”，这两位女性为女性气质和个人风格方面提供了鲜明的经验教训，这些经验会伴随她女儿的一生。穿梭于沃克斯的曼哈顿，福罗里达州的家里，以及夏帕在罗马和巴黎度过的令人惊叹的生活（在她的一群朋友中例如大力，杜尚,毕加索），“如何来成为一名优秀的女性”带着夏帕大胆的创造力灌输进了奥黛丽传统的家庭观念——她的龙虾裙和鞋状的帽子——为了在那个时候和现在在时尚界创造出一种精彩的观点；以及在作为一名女儿，妹妹和母亲。附有120多张插图，这本充满智慧和令人喜爱的回忆录有着像一本亲密的剪贴簿那样的吸引力，因为它探索了一个女孩是如何把她塑造成一位女性的。这是沃克迄今为止最好的一本书。（Susie）

Awards/获奖情况：‘Ignoring Schiaparelli is to ignore fashion and art. Soon everyone will be reminded who Schiap is.’ Ines de la Fressange, author of Parisian Chic

‘Thought-provoking and delightful. I ove the way Volk transforms the apparently frivolous and, often, outmoded details of femininity – how to order a fur coat, for example, or how to lay a formal table – into valuable lessons for life. I found it completely beguiling.’ Lucy Moore, author of Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties and the forthcoming Nijinsky: A Life

’A moving and entertaining double memoir’Anne de Courcy, author of The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj

’An epic tale of love and liberation, which is to say a mother/daughter story. Patty Volk is a wonder, and this memoir as charming, quirky, and wise as her larger-than-life mother.’ Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra: A Life

’It’s a pure joy to be in Patricia Volk’s presence on the pages of her new book ... A diptych portrayal of her gorgeous and infuriating mother and the great fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, this is an irresistible tour de force that puts on display Volk’s intelligence, wit and sparkling prose.’ Louis Begley

’Volk expresses a touch of heroine-worship for both her mother’s glamorous pragmatism and Elsa Schiaparelli’s functional extravagance. >The women make an unlikely pair, but Volk’s nostalgic voice wisely integrates the best of them both. It does so with such engaging generosity and kindness that this funny, melancholic memoir ultimately feels like an embrace.’ Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree

’You have to be very grown up to write a memoir as wise as SHOCKED. It helps to have a prose style as supple, elegant, witty, and modest as Patricia Volk’s. This is a truthful, wholly original portrayal of mother-daughter love, and (incidentally) of the joys and limitations of a passion for fashion. It deserves to become a classic.’ Kennedy Fraser

’This daring and irresistible catalog of the secrets of women cements Volk’s reputation as one of our most amusing writers. What in academic circles might be called ‘the construction of gender’ is here brought vividly and hilariously to life. If God is in the details, then this is one of the godliest books I’ve read in ages, because the details are priceless.’ Phillip Lopate

About the Author/作者介绍： <帕特里夏沃克是《纽约新闻日报》的一位每周专栏作家。她的故事,书评,和文章出现在众多的出版物里,包括《纽约时报》,《大西洋月刊》, 《纽约客》,《花花公子》,《红皮书月刊》,《GQ》,《季刊》和《奥普拉杂志》。她住在纽约。

B>Patricia Volk was a weekly columnist for New York Newsday. Her stories, book reviews, and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, New York, The New Yorker, Playboy, Redbook, GQ, The Quarterly, and O, The Oprah Magazine. She lives in New York City.

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