Elsa Schiaparelli
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
Elsa Schiaparelli

In difficult times fashion is always outrageous.

Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli

Pearls, including cheap ones, are always in good taste.

Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli

There are times to be casual and times to be correct. It's all right to wear a sweater and slacks on a picnic, but they don't belong in the theater or the drawing room.

Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli

In the building of a basic wardrobe, we cannot go wrong if we strive for simplicity and perfect fitting.

Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli

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
Elsa Schiaparelli

Before me, everything was black or navy blue or gray or brown or beige, things like that, for daytime. I began using shocking pink and ice blue and all kinds of bright colors. And I dyed furs.

Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli

What Hollywood designs today, you will be wearing tomorrow.

Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli

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

Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli

Fortunately, or unforunately for me, I am always at my best when I am unhampered: when I can let myself go and have a little fun.

Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli

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

Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli

I think it is childish for men to joke about women's clothes, to make fun of our hats, to complain over the cost of a good fur coat.

Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli

Man was created to frame the woman.

Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli

I stay out of the sun; it's terrible for the skin of any woman over 35. If you must have a suntan, at least keep moving while you're in the sun.

Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli

Cheap jewelery should never be worn unless it happens to be something that you positively know suits you.

Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli

I myself used to do absurd things. Yes, I mean that. I had to have a laugh, and some of the things were absurd. But they could always be worn by an elegant woman; they did not negate her elegance.

Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli

Women can learn from men and improve their 'chic.' A man wouldn't think of wearing a tight shoe or one that didn't harmonize with his suit.

Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli

White stockings I do not like. Why does anyone except a schoolgirl want to wear them? Nothing is more flattering to the legs than flesh color.

Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli

Many men admire strong women, but they don't love them.