Elsa Schiaparelli's "Shocking Life" Available NOW!

FINALLY! It took me almost ten years to track down a fair copy of 1954's "Shocking Life," the autobiography of Italy's surrealist-designer and "rival" of Coco Chanel. That was with the help of the Internet. Now we can all partake of a brand new edition, published to coincide with this month's "Surreal Things" exhibition at London's Victoria & Albert Museum.

Purchase it at the V&A website for 9 pounds or pre-order at Amazon for $14.78 (how exact). God bless the V&A! You Londoners are so bloody lucky.