Italian - Designer | September 10, 1890 - November 13, 1973
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
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Cheap jewelery should never be worn unless it happens to be something that you positively know suits you.
SuitsYouKnowNeverCheapHappens
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.
MyselfBestI AmFunMeI Can
What Hollywood designs today, you will be wearing tomorrow.
TodayTomorrowYouHollywoodWill
A successful designer must be a gambler.
SuccessfulMustDesignerGambler
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.
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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.
BlueMeColorsPinkBlackIce
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.
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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.
ColorWhiteWantNothingWhyLegs
The woman over 50 must be very frank with herself.
WomanOverHerselfMustVeryFrank
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.
WomanSunMovingYouSkinOver
Russian women are now interested in clothes. But they will never attach supreme importance to fashions as do Europeans and American women, because they are too vitally interested in all the various projects going on in their country.
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