Top 139 Quotes & Sayings by Alber Elbaz - Page 2

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

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

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.

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.

When you come into a house like Saint Laurent, or Chanel, or Lanvin, and you go into a place that existed before you were born and will exist after you die, it takes some time to get in, to get to people, and to get the energy of the place.

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

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

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

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.

The nature of fashion is family.

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

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.

I live many lives at once.

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

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

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.

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

I'm always looking for a story.

There is nothing scarier than being ‘the designer of the moment,’ because the moment ends.

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

Yves Saint Laurent gave women power, Chanel liberated them and when I joined Lanvin, I thought 'what do I bring to women? One day, I received an SMS from a friend in New York - she was in a taxi on the way to court to face her arsehole ex-husband, and she said to me 'Alber, I am wearing a Lanvin dress, and I feel so protected.' That to me was the biggest compliment I ever received. To have a 500 gram piece of silk make her feel protected - that made me very happy indeed.

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.

I like the dream, like fantasy dresses. Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o’clock at night, it doesn’t matter. I think it is also important for me to make it pragmatic and practical and wearable. I always say, 'If you can’t eat it, it’s not food, and if you can’t wear it, it’s not fashion, it is something else.'

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.

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

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

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.

I'd rather be relevant than cool.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Fashion is about having a fantasy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is beautiful for you may not be beautiful to someone else. Or whatever is beautiful here may not be beautiful there and what is sometimes beautiful today is not necessarily beautiful tomorrow. Perhaps this is the story of fashion and what makes it move forward, the fact that there is no decision whatsoever with what’s wrong.

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 think that the lack of intuition in fashion today is one of the most dangerous things. My fear is that our business is turning into a bag business, and it's all about the bag. But it's not only about the bag. It's about the women. And it's not about a bag or a shoe or the jewelry. It's only about women. . . . Being almost politically correct and doing only what you expect without the ability to make mistakes is very dangerous to fashion. We have to go with our heart. We have to go with our intuition.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

H&M approached us to collaborate, and see if we could translate the dream we created at Lanvin to a wider audience, not just a dress for less. I have said in the past that I would never do a mass-market collection, but what intrigued me was the idea of H&M going luxury rather than Lanvin going public. This has been an exceptional exercise, where two companies at opposite poles can work together because we share the same philosophy of bringing joy and beauty to men and women around the world.

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

Everybody's talking about the new democratic world and whether high fashion is relevant. But without high there is no low. I don't like to intellectualize. I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.

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

I was thinking recently, If the body really is the new dress, as some are saying - with women buying boobs, butts, faces - then who needs a dressmaker? So I started designing spring like a plastic surgeon - everything stretchy and nude. But after three weeks, I was so bored with myself and the world, I began adding diamond butterflies and chiffon and colors. I realized that fashion is not about second skin. It's not the perfect white shirt or camel jacket. What women need is a dream.

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

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

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