The Irresistible Mr Wrong by Jeremy Scott

Author:Jeremy Scott [Jeremy Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781849544276
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Published: 2012-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

‘Sooner or later there had to come a day when I filled out my leather shorts too well,’ Zsa Zsa says.

At the age of thirteen she was sent to Madame Sabilia’s School for young ladies in Lausanne. She was not bookish, but she was smart and quick. She possessed a sharp eye and a ready tongue. She was precociously representative of that between-the-wars period in which young women bobbed their hair, shortened their skirts, drank cocktails, smoked and transformed their traditional image beyond recognition. She was not without anxieties but she kept this to herself. ‘To show fear, to admit that I was hurt, to reveal my true feelings, to be pitied – this I could not bear.’ To protect herself she cultivated the bold over-the-top persona that would become her image, fashioning an individual style that would remain hers throughout her life.

At school, ‘I adored the English girls, especially a tall languid brunette … her calm, her indifference to argument, her cool disdain seemed to me the height of all that was elegant.’

Zsa Zsa’s first letter home flags the priorities she would retain:

I’m the only Hungarian girl here, all the rest are English … They think all Hungarian girls are gypsies and are amazed I know how to use a knife and fork … Mamika, I want you to burn this letter as soon as you finish it so Father won’t see it – but Mama dear, I’d love to have a garter belt. All the English girls have them…

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