Elsa Schiaparelli Quotes & Sayings

Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions. — Elsa Schiaparelli

In difficult times fashion is always outrageous. — Elsa Schiaparelli

One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it. — Elsa Schiaparelli

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. — Elsa Schiaparelli

Dress designing ... is to me not a profession but an art, — Elsa Schiaparelli

Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body. — Elsa Schiaparelli

I gave to pink, the nerve of the red, a neon pink, an unreal pink. — Elsa Schiaparelli

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

The way is open to everybody who has the will, the ambition, the respect for work, and the IT. — Elsa Schiaparelli

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

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

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

Dresses that are truly beautiful are never unfashionable. — Elsa Schiaparelli

Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill. — Elsa Schiaparelli

Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress. — Elsa Schiaparelli

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