Elsa Schiaparelli

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.

In the building of a basic wardrobe, we cannot go wrong if we strive for simplicity and perfect fitting.

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.

It's not polite to refuse to dress for a parly. It's an insult to your hostess. After all, correct dress is a part of good manners.

Russian women are now interested in clothes. But they will never attach supreme importance to fashions as do Europeans and American women, because they are too vitally interested in all the various projects going on in their country.

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

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

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.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

You cannot choose beforehand what you want to use for a suit. You may want to change your mind a dozen times before you are through.

There are times to be casual and times to be correct. It's all right to wear a sweater and slacks on a picnic, but they don't belong in the theater or the drawing room.