Elsa Schiaparelli Quotes

• 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

  Elsa Schiaparelli (1954). “Shocking Life”

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• In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Fashion, Style, Difficult Times

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• Dress designing, incidentally, is to me not a profession but an art.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Art, Design, Dresses

  "Shocking Life".

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• I gave to pink, the nerve of the red, a neon pink, an unreal pink.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Nerves, Neon, Red

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• 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

  1954 A Shocking Life, ch.9.

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• Dresses that are truly beautiful are never unfashionable.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Beautiful, Dresses

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• Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Funny, Fashion, Women

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Dresses, Body, Fit

  Elsa Schiaparelli (1954). “Shocking Life”

  42 Copy quote

• Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Soul, Body, Belief

  Elsa Schiaparelli (1954). “Shocking Life”

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

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Ambition, Way

  Elsa Schiaparelli (1954). “Shocking Life”

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• 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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• One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Trends

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• Mehr als das Leben lieb' ich meine Freiheit. More than life, I cherish freedom.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Als, Cherish

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• 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, Eating Well

  Elsa Schiaparelli (1954). “Shocking Life”

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• Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Fashion, Women, Inferiority

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• A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Happiness, Food, Home Cooking

  1954 A Shocking Life, ch.21.

  88 Copy quote

• Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Food, Eating Well, Giving

  Elsa Schiaparelli (1954). “Shocking Life”

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• Mitt der Dummheit k a« mpfen G o« tter selbst vergebens. Even the gods themselves struggle in vain against stupidity.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Struggle, Stupidity, Vain

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