Top 45 Alber Elbaz Quotes

I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.

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

I wanted to go out of fashion, to study medicine. I thought, you know, who needs fashion? How important is it if you wear a red dress and an orange jacket? It’s not, really.

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

In fashion, the time is so short, and even with pre-collection, there are not only dresses, shoes, bags, and furs but now raincoats and T-shirts. It’s just an endless amount of work that we have to produce in no time.

I do sport at the gym a few times a week, but I hate it. Work is my only remedy. I feel so twisted and horrible in the morning, but then I go to the office and I start feeling better. Work is my Tylenol. Extra-strength.

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

I hate the word ‘cool.’ It gives me a rash.

If you take something out of the freezer, it’s cold, but what happens when it melts? It’s a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I’m more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility.

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.

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

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

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

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

I like dresses for night; I like after-party more than party. I like the mystery; I like the dream, like fantasy dresses. I think, also, that you make women dream.

The worst thing that can happen is if you’re stuck within a bubble and you think that is what life is all about. It’s great to see other people and hear from people of different ages and opinions.

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

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

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

I’m not a religious person in the regular sense, but in the Bible you’re not allowed to steal, you’re not allowed to lie and you’re not allowed to feel you’re above other people.

One woman told me that every time she wears Lanvin, men fall in love with her. Another told me she wore Lanvin to face her husband’s lawyer because she felt protected. If I can make men fall in love with women and if I can protect women, I think I can die peacefully.

I work on fittings, mostly. You know, I sketch less and less in my work. I sketch for the show sometimes, but then it becomes more conceptual. But when I don’t sketch, it becomes more pragmatic.

Stay big in your work and small in your life.

I always think, if I were an editor, and I was invited to a show, and I would have to wait for 45 minutes in the dark or in the cold or in the heat, maybe I would like to have a fresh drink or a piece of chocolate.

I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don’t listen to the formula makers. I think maybe I have a selective hearing disorder.

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

The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They’re kind of like nuns of fashion.

I certainly can’t complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four – fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

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.

Many, many times I find that whatever is looking good on the screen doesn’t always look or feel good on the body. So who do we design for – do we design for the screen, or do we design for women?

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

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.

If I wasn’t a designer, I would love to be a doctor. That is my fantasy, my dream. A doctor will give you a tablet if you have a headache, and I will give you a dress, and we both make you feel good.

I live many lives at once.

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

I think a good designer can exist everywhere and anywhere and all the time. It’s all about being good, and I think that our job basically is to make women and men look good.

The nature of fashion is family.

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.

We are being accused that some models are anorexic. But we as fashion designers cannot be blamed, because you know, when I talk to women around the world, rich and poor and young and old and intellectual and not, what they want to be is skinny. You ask them, ‘What is your dream?’ It’s to be skinny. That’s all they want.

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

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

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

I barely finish one pre-collection before I must start on another. Sales start, but I am already elsewhere creatively. The men’s show is being prepared, but we also need to think about accessories, perfumes and other items. In sum, I never stop.

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