Paris Was A Woman

“Warum ist es so kalt?” Erika Mann in der “Pfeffermühle”

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Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961) Scrapbook, undated

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Postcard Portrait of Anna Pavlova by Madame d’Ora, c.1913.

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Elsa Schiaparelli is not a woman to mince words, if her “12 Commandments for Women” are anything to go by. In her autobiography, Shocking Life, which she published in 1954 just as she was closing up her famed shop on the Place Vendôme in Paris, she concludes with a list of guidelines she gleaned from her career. Read on to be alternately intimidated and intrigued by the imperious fashion genius.

1. Since most women do not know themselves, they should try to do so.
2. A woman who buys an expensive dress and changes it, often with disastrous result, is extravagant and foolish.
3. Most women (and men) are colour-blind. They should ask for suggestions.
4. Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions.
5. Ninety percent are afraid of being conspicuous, and of what people will say. So they buy a gray suit. They should dare to be different.

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“unsere Solidarität war absolut und ohne Vorbehalt”
“our solidarity was absolute and without reservation”

Erika Mann and her brother Klaus.

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Anita Berber

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Tamara de Lempicka - Woman in a yellow dress; 1929.

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Marianne Breslauer, La Cigarette [& charcuterie], 1929 

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Romaine Brooks, La Jaquette Rouge, 1910

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