Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress. — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
Dress designing, incidentally, is to me not a profession but an art. — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
White stockings I do not like. Why does anyone except a schoolgirl want to wear them? Nothing is more flattering to the… — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
It's not polite to refuse to dress for a parly. It's an insult to your hostess. After all, correct dress is a… — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
In the building of a basic wardrobe, we cannot go wrong if we strive for simplicity and perfect fitting. — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
I myself used to do absurd things. Yes, I mean that. I had to have a laugh, and some of the things… — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
A dress has no life of its own unless it is worn, and as soon as this happens another personality takes over… — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
Russian women are now interested in clothes. But they will never attach supreme importance to fashions as do Europeans and American women,… — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions. — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
You cannot choose beforehand what you want to use for a suit. You may want to change your mind a dozen times… — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
There are times to be casual and times to be correct. It's all right to wear a sweater and slacks on a… — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by… — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
Men have to be freed from the tortures of heavy clothing that covers everything but the face and hands. — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill. — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
I gave to pink, the nerve of the red, a neon pink, an unreal pink. — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
Give a man a chance, and he'll be so casual that he won't bathe, shave, or comb his hair. He'll just depend on his… — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
Fortunately, or unforunately for me, I am always at my best when I am unhampered: when I can let myself go and have a… — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
In the building of a basic wardrobe, we cannot go wrong if we strive for simplicity and perfect fitting. — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
Before me, everything was black or navy blue or gray or brown or beige, things like that, for daytime. I began using shocking pink… — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have… — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
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… — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
