Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelliwas an Italian fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest rival, she is regarded as one of the most prominent figures in fashion between the two World Wars. Starting with knitwear, Schiaparelli's designs were heavily influenced by Surrealists like her collaborators Salvador Dalí and Jean Cocteau. Her clients included the heiress Daisy Fellowes and actress Mae West. Schiaparelli did not adapt to the changes in fashion following World War II and her couture house closed in 1954...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth10 September 1890
CountryItaly
Elsa Schiaparelli quotes about
Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous.
Dresses that are truly beautiful are never unfashionable.
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.
The way is open to everybody who has the will, the ambition, the respect for work, and the IT.
Mehr als das Leben lieb' ich meine Freiheit. More than life, I cherish freedom.
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.
Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions.
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress.
Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill.
Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body.
Mitt der Dummheit k a« mpfen G o« tter selbst vergebens. Even the gods themselves struggle in vain against stupidity.
One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it.