Quotation by Elsa Schiaparelli

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Shocking Life (1954)

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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, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.

Elsa Schiaparelli

Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973), Italian fashion designer. Shocking Life, ch. 9 (1954).

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