Elsa Schiaparelli Quotes

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

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A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

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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.

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

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Remember—twenty per cent of women have inferiority complexes. Seventy per cent have illusions.... Ninety per cent are afraid of being conspicuous and of what people will say. So they buy a gray suit. They should dare to be different.

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

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

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If I have become what I am, I owe it to two distinct things—poverty and Paris. Poverty forced me to work, and Paris gave me a liking for it and courage.

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

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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.

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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.

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