Occupation: Fashion Designer Birth: September 10, 1890 Death: November 13, 1973
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, ….
Dress designing, incidentally, is to me not a profession but an art..
Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women..
Mehr als das Leben lieb' ich meine Freiheit. More than life, I cherish freedom..
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. ….
Mitt der Dummheit k a« mpfen G o« tter selbst vergebens. Even the gods themselves struggle in vain against stupidity..
Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body..
Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions..
Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress..
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, g….
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 wal….
I gave to pink, the nerve of the red, a neon pink, an unreal pink..
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness..
Dresses that are truly beautiful are never unfashionable..
One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it..
In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous..
Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill..
The way is open to everybody who has the will, the ambition, the respect for work, and the IT..