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I don't have the feeling that I need to add a lot to my collection, because I have an incredibly wide range of things. This is a part of the secret of my things, that they are still valid. When I feel a need, I do something more.
Elsa Peretti
Feeling
Add
Incredibly
Valid
Secret
Range
Collection
Something
More
Part
Feel
Because
Still
Lot
The Secret Of
Wide
Things
Wide Range
Need
For me, to put together my museum and all my remembrances was a big effort mentally, physically and monetarily.
Elsa Peretti
Me
Together
Big
Physically
Mentally
Put
Effort
Museum
I keep my hair gray, so I like silver and platinum. For women who dye their hair, they can wear whatever they want.
Elsa Peretti
Women
Hair
Whatever
Wear
Silver
Like
Want
Dye
Who
Platinum
Keep
Gray
People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time.
Elsa Peretti
Time
People
Dust
Houses
Surround
Themselves
Really
Things
Need
What I want is not to become a status symbol, but to give beauty at a price.
Elsa Peretti
Beauty
Become
Status
Give
Price
Want
Symbol
A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things.
Elsa Peretti
Time
People
Wealth
Long
Long Time
Big
Diamond
Wear
Really
Who
Such Things
Nouveau
Things
Necklace
White stockings I do not like. Why does anyone except a schoolgirl want to wear them? Nothing is more flattering to the legs than flesh color.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Nothing
White
Wear
More
Color
Except
Like
Schoolgirl
Does
Stockings
Than
Want
Anyone
Legs
Flattering
Them
Flesh
Why
In difficult times fashion is always outrageous.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Fashion
Difficult
Outrageous
Always
Times
Difficult Times
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.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Government
Class
Women
Old
Doctors
Sympathy
Members
Classes
Composers
Russia
Writers
Taken
Nobility
Also
Well
Government Officials
Officials
Soviet
Soviets
Artists
Place
Which
Former
Professional
Whose
Peasant
Two
A successful designer must be a gambler.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Must
Successful
Gambler
Designer
Before me, everything was black or navy blue or gray or brown or beige, things like that, for daytime. I began using shocking pink and ice blue and all kinds of bright colors. And I dyed furs.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Me
Black
Before
Everything
Kinds
Brown
Colors
Daytime
Like
Pink
Began
Shocking
Blue
Dyed
Ice
Using
Navy
Bright
Things
Gray
Cheap jewelery should never be worn unless it happens to be something that you positively know suits you.
Elsa Schiaparelli
You
Suits
Worn
Unless
Positively
Something
Never
Cheap
Know
Happens
Should
Women can learn from men and improve their 'chic.' A man wouldn't think of wearing a tight shoe or one that didn't harmonize with his suit.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Man
Women
Men
Think
Harmonize
Wearing
Learn
Tight
His
Chic
Shoe
Improve
Suit
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.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Best
Myself
Me
Always
Am
Go
Little
Fortunately
Fun
What Hollywood designs today, you will be wearing tomorrow.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Today
You
Tomorrow
Will
Wearing
Hollywood
Designs
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.
Elsa Schiaparelli
You
Change
Mind
Before
Through
Beforehand
Times
May
Want
Cannot
Use
Your
Choose
Dozen
Suit
I myself used to do absurd things. Yes, I mean that. I had to have a laugh, and some of the things were absurd. But they could always be worn by an elegant woman; they did not negate her elegance.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Myself
Woman
Worn
Laugh
Some
Could
Had
Absurd
Always
Were
Yes
Did
Mean
Used
Elegance
Elegant
Her
Things
The woman over 50 must be very frank with herself.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Woman
Herself
Frank
Must
Over
Very
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.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Women
Will
Country
Clothes
Too
Projects
Vitally
Russian
Various
Attach
Never
Importance
Supreme
Because
Women Are
American
Going
Interested
American Women
Europeans
Now
Fashions
Man was created to frame the woman.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Man
Woman
Frame
Created
It is important that every bride feels comfortable in her chosen dress, and fabric choice has a big part to play in this.
Emilia Wickstead
Important
Big
Every
Fabric
Dress
Part
Feels
Comfortable
Big Part
Choice
Bride
Chosen
Play
Her
I love wearing interesting shoes that work well with my outfit.
Emilia Wickstead
Work
Love
Shoes
Wearing
Outfit
Well
Interesting
Here in London, you can go for picnics and have a barbecue; you can go to a park and wear bare feet, much like New Zealand. But there's just so much buzz going on; you can be inspired by anything and everything. There's always something to do. Always.
Emilia Wickstead
You
Everything
Wear
London
Something
Park
Inspired
Picnic
New
Feet
Like
Always
Go
Going
Just
Anything
New Zealand
Anything And Everything
Barbecue
Much
Bare
Bare Feet
Zealand
Here
Buzz
You can see that ladylike kind of dressing with a twist coming back at Dior, and I think that a lot of the fashion is following in those kinds of footsteps. It's wearable. It sits in your wardrobe forever.
Emilia Wickstead
Fashion
You
Think
Back
Those
Kind
Dior
Kinds
See
Dressing
Following
Footsteps
Coming
Lot
Forever
Ladylike
Wardrobe
Your
Twist
It's quite funny. I grew up with my mother: as a designer, she was always working, and I actually used to say to her, 'Whatever you do, never leave me your business.'
Emilia Wickstead
Funny
Me
You
Business
Mother
Whatever
Say
Never
She
Always
Leave
Up
Quite
Grew
Working
Your
Used
Her
Actually
Designer
There is so much talent in British fashion: a real cookie jar of different aesthetics with designers like Mary Katrantzou, Erdem, Christopher Kane, J. W. Anderson, and Simone Rocha.
Emilia Wickstead
Fashion
Christopher
Anderson
Mary
Talent
Like
Real
Aesthetic
Different
Jar
Kane
Much
Cookie
Designers
British
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