Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli

Picture book biography | hardcover | A dazzling first-person picture book biography of the life of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli by gifted team Kyo Maclear and Julie Morstad. Here is the life of iconic fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, who as a little girl in Rome was told by her own mamma that she was brutta. Ugly. So she decided to seek out beauty around her, and found it everywhere. What is beauty? Elsa wondered. She looked everywhere for beauty until something inside of Elsa blossomed, and she became an artist with an incredible imagination. Defining beauty on her own creative terms, Schiaparelli worked hard to develop her designs and eventually bloomed into an extraordinary talent who dreamed up the most wonderful dresses, hats, shoes, and jewelry. Why not a shoe for a hat? Why not a dress with drawers? And she invented a color: shocking pink!