Alber Elbaz Quotes

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

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

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

I love women. I get along with women more than men, and I have more women friends.

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

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

The problem with couture is not designers; it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.

I am very much a people person.

Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o'clock at night - it doesn't matter.

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.

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.

I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.