Schiaparelli

From the painter Rome of the early 20th century, to the glamorous, effervescent and convulsive Paris of the interwar period, the characters in this novel are exquisitely mixed in a deep story of eternal love, of blood friends and of those inviolable secrets that we all keep in our lives. boxes of our soul and our life. The eventful existence of Italian designer Elsa Schiaparelli winds its way across the world to drink from the most avant-garde artists of her time and build her vibrant fashion empire. Descendant of the Medici, born in the aristocratic and intellectual cradle of Palazzo Corsini, daughter of the dean of the University of La Sapienza, little Schiap will fall in love as a child with the stars, with art and with wisdom thanks to her uncle, the famous astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli. Wayward, extravagant, deeply liberal and dreamy, an eternal enemy of Coco Chanel and a close friend of Salvador Dalí, Elsa will live a passionate story full of encounters and misunderstandings in this novel that, beyond all fashions and dreams, it is a song to life.