Elsa Schiaparelli famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
-- Elsa Schiaparelli

#Funny Inspirational #Dresses #World
In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous.
-- Elsa Schiaparelli

#Fashion #Difficult Times #Difficult
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiaparelli

#Food #Sorceress #Cooks
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
-- Elsa Schiaparelli

#Life #Food #Giving
Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress.
-- Elsa Schiaparelli

#Body #Dresses #Fit
Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill.
-- Elsa Schiaparelli

#Giving #Joy #Eating
Dresses that are truly beautiful are never unfashionable.
-- Elsa Schiaparelli

#Beautiful #Dresses
Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions.
-- Elsa Schiaparelli

#Fashion #Women #Inferiority
Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body.
-- Elsa Schiaparelli

#Soul #Body #Belief
Mitt der Dummheit k aÂ« mpfen G oÂ« tter selbst vergebens. Even the gods themselves struggle in vain against stupidity.
-- Elsa Schiaparelli

#Struggle #Stupidity #Vain
Mehr als das Leben lieb' ich meine Freiheit. More than life, I cherish freedom.
-- Elsa Schiaparelli

#Als #Cherish
A dress has no life of its own unless it is worn, and as soon as this happens another personality takes over from you and animates it, or tries to, glorifies or destroys it, or makes it into a song of beauty.
-- Elsa Schiaparelli

#Song #Personality #Trying
The way is open to everybody who has the will, the ambition, the respect for work, and the IT.
-- Elsa Schiaparelli

#Ambition #Way
Dress designing . . . is to me not a profession but an art,
-- Elsa Schiaparelli

#Art #Design #Dresses
One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it.
-- Elsa Schiaparelli

#Trends
Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.
-- Elsa Schiaparelli

#Fashion #Clothes #Style
Many men admire strong women but they don't love them. Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness.
-- Elsa Schiaparelli

#Strong Women #Way #Succeed

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