Alber Elbaz Quotes

The big room or big suite doesn't mean a lot to me. It is what the people do or don't do that matters.

Fashion is not always about what's new, it's also about what's good. And I think if you need to see what's good, you have to be there.

I am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from the past, people, events.

Our clothes are not always beautiful on the hanger, but put them on, and they fit like bathing suits.

I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn't about winning or losing. It's about process, keeping it going.

My job is to do. My job is to make women beautiful. What do I have to say?

I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.

I created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich.

I love to travel inside my head, take journeys toward the unknown, meet new people, dream.

In fashion we're lucky, we make dreams come true.

I never think people should do things for me. I think I should do things for others. That makes me more comfortable.

Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.

Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.

All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me.

I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.

I hate bridges. I'm always very insecure on bridges.

I'd rather be relevant than cool.

I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.

Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend.

It's a major job to help men and women look beautiful.

When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.

The whole season thing is nonsense. It's either beautiful or it isn't. That's something I really learned when I started collecting dresses.

I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.

If it's not edible, it's not food. If it's not wearable, it's not fashion.

When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.

How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street; it does generate buzz.

All I want to do is make people beautiful.

Fashion is like a fruit, you couldn't eat it a day before and you can't eat it a day after; it's just about today

It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion,

Mine is a job that never ends, a function where it is almost impossible to set aside time to rest or take a breather.

I'm not going into the cool club. It's not my address.

Nothing is ever enough for me. I'm always thinking what is wrong, what needs to be fixed.

I know amazing people in fashion who are anything but fake. They are very real and very sensitive. They are happy and sad. They are loyal friends.

The nature of fashion is family. You see that at almost every house, it was owned first by a family. It wasn't owned by a bank.

Stay big in your work and small in your life.

Me, as a designer who is not exactly skinny, all I want is comfortable clothes.

If I am in a beautiful place, but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.

I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.

My dream is to be a doctor. I'm almost working in a laboratory, because I'm trying new techniques, new directions and fabrics, new weaving.

I think 'modesty' is a beautiful word today - and a beautiful attitude.

I hate the word 'cool.' It gives me a rash.

I love and respect women. I work mostly with women.

I am very much a people person.

Making them feel gorgeous and comfortable is my way of making women's lives easier,

I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.

Fashion is about having a fantasy.

What I love in fashion is to tell a story through a creation.

I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.

Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?

I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.

Elegant is not what you wear, and it's not about how you wear it, but it's more about who you are.

I spend my time backstage at the Lanvin shows, and when I come out at the end, all I see are people's eyes.

With fashion, I barely finish one collection before I must start another.

If you change a woman's look, you change her persona.

Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.

I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'

We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.

I live many lives at once.

The nature of fashion is family.

I used to hate L.A., but I met such a great group of people there that I fell in love with it.

Fashion is instinctive and sensual. Learn to love what you wear. It should feel like eating chocolates ... wi thout the calories

Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.

Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.

I feel more and more that the most beautiful people are the ones who are comfortable with themselves.

I'm always looking for a story.

I don't want to see a dress with a woman. I just want to see a woman, with a beautiful dress.

To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.

There is always a reason why, and I need to tell the stories.

For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.

Fashion doesn't look good only on models; it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.

I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.

Fashion is not about before, it's not about after, it's about now

For me, Lancome was more than just a brand. There was something very nostalgic about the name, about the whole story.

Sometimes you don't really need armor to feel protected. Sometimes maybe you need just a chiffon dress to hug you.

I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, inventing. The day I cease to learn, I must stop.

At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.

What we want is clothing we think we can fly in. That's why I opened the show with flying dresses.

I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.

The problem with couture is not designers; it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there.

Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o'clock at night - it doesn't matter.

Everyone wants to be young and skinny. This is awful. Curves are marvelous. Wrinkles are hypnotizing. Why not just be happy with who you are?

I love women. I get along with women more than men, and I have more women friends.