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 More Quotes by Elsa Schiaparelli More Quotes From Elsa Schiaparelli In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous. Elsa Schiaparelli difficult-times style fashion 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. Elsa Schiaparelli personality song trying 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. Elsa Schiaparelli clothes style fashion Dress designing, incidentally, is to me not a profession but an art. Elsa Schiaparelli design dresses art Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. Elsa Schiaparelli women fashion funny I gave to pink, the nerve of the red, a neon pink, an unreal pink. Elsa Schiaparelli neon red nerves Dresses that are truly beautiful are never unfashionable. Elsa Schiaparelli dresses beautiful 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 intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness. Elsa Schiaparelli strong-women succeed way The way is open to everybody who has the will, the ambition, the respect for work, and the IT. Elsa Schiaparelli ambition way Mehr als das Leben lieb' ich meine Freiheit. More than life, I cherish freedom. Elsa Schiaparelli cherish als Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body. Elsa Schiaparelli body soul belief Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions. Elsa Schiaparelli inferiority women fashion Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress. Elsa Schiaparelli fit body dresses 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 eating-well food life A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. Elsa Schiaparelli home-cooking food happiness One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it. Elsa Schiaparelli trends Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill. Elsa Schiaparelli eating-well food giving Mitt der Dummheit k a« mpfen G o« tter selbst vergebens. Even the gods themselves struggle in vain against stupidity. Elsa Schiaparelli vain stupidity struggle 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 picnic sweater wear drawing I get more disgusted with men all the time - particularly traveling Americans. They start out on a trip to Europe and never bother to pack a dinner jacket. This is not only stupid - it's bad manners. Elsa Schiaparelli dinner stupid time men