Elsa Schiaparelli Quotes

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• Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
• 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…
• 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…
• Dresses that are truly beautiful are never unfashionable.
• Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill.
• One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it.
• Dress designing . . . is to me not a profession but an art,
• The way is open to everybody who has the will, the ambition, the respect for work, and the IT.
• 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…
• Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress.
• 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…
• A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
• In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous.

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