Top 139 Quotes & Sayings by Alber Elbaz - Page 3

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.

After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’

I don’t take drugs because if I did I’d love them–I’d be a junkie. And because I’m Jewish, I’d probably be a dealer, too.

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

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.

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.

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.

In fashion, we have a reputation for being such a façade, fake people, but none of the fashion people who I know are fake.

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.

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

If I were a buyer today in one of the American department stores, I would go with extremes-the most beautiful, the more expensive, the more eccentric. I would take risks. The worst thing would be to buy only the little black dress. You know why? Because everyone has it already. I would go with a purple dress, something different

All the young people in fashion worship the people who have been around a long time. I think it is about keeping something going through the generations. Take my work: Just because I'm not 20 anymore doesn't mean that people don't appreciate what I do.

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

All I want to do is make people beautiful.

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

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

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.

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

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