187 Quotes by Alber Elbaz

I certainly can’t complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four – fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

I always say that women are very strong and men are powerful. But beauty gives you both strength and power. I never think of it. It’s just one of those natural things. It’s the only thing I know how to do.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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