A dazzling first-person picture book biography of the life of a daring and different young girl from Rome, Italy, who used art to make fashionEand it was quite marvelous.
Informative backmatter and suggested further reading included..
Maclear tells a lyrical Story with moments both poignant and humorous and Morstad\'s elegant imagery saturates the pages with Schiaparelli-inspired shapes and colors.
Kyo Maclear and Julie Morstad (creators of Julia, Child ) have gorgeously interpreted Schiaparelli\'s life.
Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli is a stunning and sophisticated picture book biography that follows Schiaparelli\'s life from birth and childhood to height of success.
She mixed her own bold colors and invented her own signature shades, including shocking pink.
In the 1920 and \'30s, influenced by her friends in the surrealist art movement, Schiaparelli created a vast collection of unique Fashion designs--hats shaped like shoes, a dress adorned with lobsters, gloves with fingernails, a dress with drawers and so many more.
All she got was sick, but from that moment, she discovered her own wild imagination.
Seeing the colors of Rome\'s flower market one day, young Elsa tried to plant seeds in her ears and nose, hoping to blossom like a flower.
As a young girl in Rome, Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) felt brutta (ugly) and searched all around her for beauty.
Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli is the enchanting Story for young readers of how a young girl used her imagination and emerged from plain to extraordinary.
By the 1930s Elsa Schiaparelli had captivated the Fashion world in Paris, but before that, she was a little girl in Rome who didn\'t feel pretty at all.
It\'s a fun way to learn to read and as a supplement for activity books for children.
This nonfiction picture book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular for children ages 4 to 6.
Elsa dared to be different, and her Story will not only dazzle, it will inspire the artist and fashionista in everyone who reads it.
A dazzling picture book biography of one of the world\'s most influential designers, Elsa Schiaparelli.
Full color.
Back matter included.
A dazzling first-person picture book biography of the life of a daring and different young girl from Rome, Italy, who used art to make fashionEand it was quite marvelous
