187 Quotes by Alber Elbaz

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

I spend my time backstage at the Lanvin shows, and when I come out at the end, all I see are people’s eyes.

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.

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.

Everybody’s talking about the new democratic world and whether high fashion is relevant. But without high there is no low. I don’t like to intellectualize. I’ve always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don’t have to think about it to know it’s delicious.

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

Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don’t have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I’ve tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it.

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 go out to parties because I’d look terrible in pictures. My escape is television – it’s like meditation to me.