Elsa Schiaparelli Quotes

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

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.

She can endure pain and loss without any trouble, but she doesn't know how to react facing happiness.

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

Dresses that are truly beautiful are never unfashionable.

Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill.

Women don't age if their age if their clothes stay new.

Designer Elsa Schiaparelli’s enormously popular perfume, Shocking, launched in 1937, was one of countless products to derive inspiration from surrealism, revealing how rapidly a movement that was rooted in radical Marxist and Freudian principles could degenerate, so far as its founders were concerned, into an eye-catching, mind-blowing gimmick of immense use to advertisers, fashion photographers, and moviemakers. Breton would be horrified by this development; Dalí delighted.

An artist must do what she was put on this earth to do. I do not give up and go into my little safe cocoon.

We both believe in beauty and elegance. In strong women who know their own minds. No one will look good in her clothes if she doesn't walk as if she owns the world. Remember that, Lily. It's ours, all the beauty we want, if we want it hard enough.

We leaned even closer and pressed our foreheads together for consolation, as a promise, fingers entwined, and it was like the last application of color to the canvas, the moment when you know this is what had been waiting to be completed, this is what had existed somewhere, even if just in your imagination. You have brought it isn't the richness of being. Layer up on layer of color, and when the final one is applied, gold bursts upon the back of your closed eyelids.

Who cared how well a garment was constructed? The effect from a distance was what counted. Luxe pauvre, meaning that the style was almost Japanese in its restrained use of color and furnishings, but combined with opulent materials. I do not believe for a moment that women who make tremendous successes of their lives are happy. Fame for a woman is invariably built on unhappiness and disppointment.

Really good clothes never go out of fashion.