Azzedine Alaia Quotes
Fashion will last forever. It will exist always. It will exist in its own way in each era. I live in the moment. It's interesting to know the old methods. But you have to live in the present moment.
When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era.
It's important to make women feel confident, because I think they are more important than men.
My obsession is to make women beautiful. When you create with that in mind, things can't go out of fashion.
I am never sure that anythings good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.
I think women should be seductive, not triste. Theres enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.
There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mothers clothes, I feel that I have succeeded.
If you're sad about what you see in the mirror when you wake up every morning, you must change it.
The present fashion system is too hard - there are too many collections. The designers have no time to think! Money is too important. Schedules are too crazy.
I'm working 24 hours a day. I have had a house in Tunisia for 20 years, and I never have time to go because there are collections, fittings.
As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.
I'm happier about my friends than I am about my work. I still have a long way to go with work. My friends, that's the one thing I'm sure about.
I'm always telling young designers to take the time to surround themselves with women.
I think women should be seductive, not triste. There's enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.
