Alber Elbaz Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I'd rather be relevant than cool.

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

Fashion is about having a fantasy.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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