Mitt der Dummheit k a« mpfen G o« tter selbst vergebens. Even the gods themselves struggle in vain against stupidity. Elsa Schiaparelli More Quotes by Elsa Schiaparelli More Quotes From Elsa Schiaparelli In the building of a basic wardrobe, we cannot go wrong if we strive for simplicity and perfect fitting. Elsa Schiaparelli go building simplicity perfect It's not polite to refuse to dress for a parly. It's an insult to your hostess. After all, correct dress is a part of good manners. Elsa Schiaparelli dress good insult manners Pearls, including cheap ones, are always in good taste. Elsa Schiaparelli good always good-taste taste There are two classes of women in Soviet Russia. There is the professional class, which has taken the place of the nobility and includes government officials, artists, doctors, composers and writers as well as former members of the old nobility whose sympathy is with the Soviets, and also the peasant class. Elsa Schiaparelli place women government sympathy A successful designer must be a gambler. Elsa Schiaparelli gambler must designer successful 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 good women clothes men 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 colors me black blue Cheap jewelery should never be worn unless it happens to be something that you positively know suits you. Elsa Schiaparelli never know you suits 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 think man women men 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 i-am best myself me What Hollywood designs today, you will be wearing tomorrow. Elsa Schiaparelli will you tomorrow today You cannot choose beforehand what you want to use for a suit. You may want to change your mind a dozen times before you are through. Elsa Schiaparelli choose you change mind 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 laugh woman myself elegance The woman over 50 must be very frank with herself. Elsa Schiaparelli herself woman must over 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 skin woman you sun 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. Elsa Schiaparelli never women clothes country
