Top 100 Alber Elbaz Quotes
#1. I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.
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#2. I think that we are in a very strange time, when everybody is thinking about what is going to happen, and everybody is kind of cleaning house a little bit. In the fashion world, we are doing something similar. We are taking the fake out and being a little bit more real and simple.
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#3. Making them feel gorgeous and comfortable is my way of making women's lives easier,
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#4. I'm not a plastic surgeon, and I cannot change the DNA of a person, but when I see a woman try on my clothes and she feels beautiful, I know I am doing my job.
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#5. If I am in a beautiful place, but I don't like the people, I am miserable.
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#6. When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.
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#7. It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion,
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#8. Our clothes are not always beautiful on the hanger, but put them on, and they fit like bathing suits.
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#9. We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.
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#10. 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.
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#11. When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the end of the year, I gave her the sketchbook. For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams.
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#12. I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.
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#13. 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.
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#14. I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.
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#15. Elegant is not what you wear, and it's not about how you wear it, but it's more about who you are.
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#16. 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.
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#17. 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.
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#18. Mine is a job that never ends, a function where it is almost impossible to set aside time to rest or take a breather.
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#19. I love women. I get along with women more than men, and I have more women friends.
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#20. 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.
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#21. Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.
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#23. 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.
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#24. 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.
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#25. 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.
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#26. If it's not edible, it's not food. If it's not wearable, it's not fashion.
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#27. I hate bridges. I'm always very insecure on bridges.
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#28. 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.
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#29. I'm not going into the cool club. It's not my address.
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#30. I always say that women are very strong and men are powerful. But beauty gives you both strength and power. I never think of it. It's just one of those natural things. It's the only thing I know how to do.
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#31. 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.
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#32. Nothing is ever enough for me. I'm always thinking what is wrong, what needs to be fixed.
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#33. Stay big in your work and small in your life.
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#34. When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.
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#35. I wanted to see people from different age groups, body shapes and personalities wearing Lanvin That is what Lanvin is all about and represents - we dont only do clothes for 20-year-old girls. I love to see mature women wearing Lanvin as well. I love wrinkles, I love grey hair.
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#36. 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.
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#37. 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.
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#38. 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.
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#40. I have a problem to do a collection that is a secondary line. I mean, you don't want to be the stepsister. You want to be Cinderella. Show me one girl who wants to be the stepsister.
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#41. All I want to do is make people beautiful.
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#42. 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.
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#43. 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?
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#44. Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.
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#45. I love to travel inside my head, take journeys toward the unknown, meet new people, dream.
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#46. Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?
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#47. Fashion is not enough anymore. It's not just about what you wear. I mean, I don't know how many women can afford to take the time to come to Paris for three fittings.
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#48. I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.
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#49. In high fashion, we're always accused of doing things that are not very relevant, not the real world. I know that it's important sometimes to do fantasy, but I felt like touching people and going back to different women and men, especially the idea of different ages and body shapes.
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#50. Style is the only thing you can't buy. It's not in a shopping bag, a label, or a price tag. It's something reflected from our soul to the outside world. An emotion.
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#51. 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.
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#52. A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.
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#53. 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
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#54. I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, inventing. The day I cease to learn, I must stop.
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#55. I feel more and more that the most beautiful people are the ones who are comfortable with themselves.
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#56. 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.
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#58. I hate the word 'cool.' It gives me a rash.
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#59. Sometimes you don't really need armor to feel protected. Sometimes maybe you need just a chiffon dress to hug you.
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#60. I created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich.
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#61. A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.
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#62. I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'
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#63. 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.
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#64. Our logo for Lanvin is a mother and a daughter. I've always said, 'It's not a lion, and it's not a horse. It's a mother and a daughter.' I find the logo very emotional.
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#65. What we want is clothing we think we can fly in. That's why I opened the show with flying dresses.
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#66. 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.
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#67. Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.
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#68. 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.
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#69. 'Commercial' is not the word that has to be said only by CEOs. It has to be something that is maybe the essence of design, because design has some sort of art in it and creation, but it's also some object that you have to use. There is also this pragmatic end to it.
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#70. I never think people should do things for me. I think I should do things for others. That makes me more comfortable.
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#71. Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o'clock at night - it doesn't matter.
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#72. 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.
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#73. Fashion doesn't look good only on models; it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.
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#74. I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.
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#75. 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.
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#76. 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.
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#77. I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.
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#78. Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.
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#79. Me, as a designer who is not exactly skinny, all I want is comfortable clothes.
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#80. All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me.
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#81. I used to hate L.A., but I met such a great group of people there that I fell in love with it.
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#82. I spend my time backstage at the Lanvin shows, and when I come out at the end, all I see are people's eyes.
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#83. I like first class, but I don't like first class people - I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants, but prefer the taste of McDonalds. I like to be perfect, but I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection. I know, I am a walking contradiction.
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#84. 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.
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#85. 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.
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#86. Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend.
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#87. 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.
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#88. I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn't about winning or losing. It's about process, keeping it going.
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#89. Fashion is instinctive and sensual. Learn to love what you wear. It should feel like eating chocolates ... wi thout the calories
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#90. I think 'modesty' is a beautiful word today - and a beautiful attitude.
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#91. In fashion we're lucky, we make dreams come true.
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#92. 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.
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#93. Fashion is not about before, it's not about after, it's about now
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#94. I don't want to see a dress with a woman. I just want to see a woman, with a beautiful dress.
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#95. I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.
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#96. I thought, 'It doesn't matter what that woman is wearing,' but then I realised actually it's our job as designers to make women smile; to bring them the chocolate without the calories.
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#97. What I love in fashion is to tell a story through a creation.
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#100. I think that because I'm overweight, [my] fantasy was lightness. So I project my fantasy to the clothes, and now all I do is light, light clothes because it's the one thing I don't have. That is why I'm too afraid to lose weight because then I might make heavy clothes.
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