Quotes from Elsa Schiaparelli

Cheap jewelery should never be worn unless it happens to be something that you positively know suits you.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Many men admire strong women, but they don't love them.

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

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