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

- Elsa Schiaparelli

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

- Elsa Schiaparelli

Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body.

- Elsa Schiaparelli

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

- Elsa Schiaparelli

Dresses that are truly beautiful are never unfashionable.

- Elsa Schiaparelli

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. …

- Elsa Schiaparelli

Mehr als das Leben lieb' ich meine Freiheit. More than life, I cherish freedom.

- Elsa Schiaparelli

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

- Elsa Schiaparelli

In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous.

- Elsa Schiaparelli