187 Quotes by Alber Elbaz

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.