Elsa Schiaparelli

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.

Dress designing, incidentally, is to me not a profession but an art.

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

Dresses that are truly beautiful are never unfashionable.

Fortunately, or unforunately for me, I am always at my best when I am unhampered: when I can let myself go and have a little fun.

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