Top 80 Alber Elbaz Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Pure, intense emotions. It’s not about design. It’s about feelings.”

— Alber Elbaz

2. “My dream is to be a doctor. I’m almost working in a laboratory, because I’m trying new techniques, new directions and fabrics, new weaving.”

— Alber Elbaz

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

— Alber Elbaz

4. “I think ‘modesty’ is a beautiful word today – and a beautiful attitude.”

— Alber Elbaz

5. “I’d rather be relevant than cool.”

— Alber Elbaz

6. “I love and respect women. I work mostly with women.”

— Alber Elbaz

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

— Alber Elbaz

8. “I don’t like perfection – I think it’s dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.”

— Alber Elbaz

9. “Sometimes you don’t really need armor to feel protected. Sometimes maybe you need just a chiffon dress to hug you.”

— Alber Elbaz

10. “Fashion doesn’t look good only on models; it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.”

— Alber Elbaz

11. “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.”

— Alber Elbaz

12. “I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.”

— Alber Elbaz

13. “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.”

— Alber Elbaz

14. “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.”

— Alber Elbaz

15. “Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o’clock at night – it doesn’t matter.”

— Alber Elbaz

16. “Style is the only thing you can’t buy. It’s not in a shopping bag, a label, or a price tag. It’s something reflected from our soul to the outside world. An emotion.”

— Alber Elbaz

17. “If it’s not edible, it’s not food. If it’s not wearable, it’s not fashion.”

— Alber Elbaz

18. “Fashion is like a fruit, you couldn’t eat it a day before and you can’t eat it a day after; it’s just about today.”

— Alber Elbaz

19. “Everyone wants to be young and skinny. This is awful. Curves are marvelous. Wrinkles are hypnotizing. Why not just be happy with who you are?”

— Alber Elbaz

20. “All I want to do is make people beautiful.”

— Alber Elbaz

21. “A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It’s a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.”

— Alber Elbaz

22. “I like first class, but I don’t like first class people – I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants, but prefer the taste of McDonalds. I like to be perfect, but I don’t like perfection – I think it’s dangerous. There is nothing after perfection. I know, I am a walking contradiction.”

— Alber Elbaz

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

— Alber Elbaz

24. “Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?”

— Alber Elbaz

25. “I’ve always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don’t have to think about it to know it’s delicious.”

— Alber Elbaz

26. “Wear flats. You’re short. It’s much cooler not to pretend.”

— Alber Elbaz

27. “If I wasnt a designer, I would love to be a doctor. That is my fantasy, my dream. A doctor will give you a tablet if you have a headache, and I will give you a dress, and we both make you feel good.”

— Alber Elbaz

28. “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.”

— Alber Elbaz

29. “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.”

— Alber Elbaz

30. “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.”

— Alber Elbaz

31. “What I love in fashion is to tell a story through a creation.”

— Alber Elbaz

32. “In fashion we’re lucky, we make dreams come true.”

— Alber Elbaz

33. “Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.”

— Alber Elbaz

34. “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.”

— Alber Elbaz

35. “For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.”

— Alber Elbaz

36. “I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.”

— Alber Elbaz

37. “I don’t take drugs because if I did I’d love them–I’d be a junkie. And because I’m Jewish, I’d probably be a dealer, too.”

— Alber Elbaz

38. “All the young people in fashion worship the people who have been around a long time. I think it is about keeping something going through the generations. Take my work: Just because I’m not 20 anymore doesn’t mean that people don’t appreciate what I do.”

— Alber Elbaz

39. “I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, inventing. The day I cease to learn, I must stop.”

— Alber Elbaz

40. “I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I’m a hypochondriac.”

— Alber Elbaz

41. “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.”

— Alber Elbaz

42. “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.”

— Alber Elbaz

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

— Alber Elbaz

44. “I do sport at the gym a few times a week, but I hate it. Work is my only remedy. I feel so twisted and horrible in the morning, but then I go to the office and I start feeling better. Work is my Tylenol. Extra-strength.”

— Alber Elbaz

45. “When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the end of the year, I gave her the sketchbook. For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams.”

— Alber Elbaz

46. “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.”

— Alber Elbaz

47. “I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.”

— Alber Elbaz

48. “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.”

— Alber Elbaz

49. “I have a problem to do a collection that is a secondary line. I mean, you don’t want to be the stepsister. You want to be Cinderella. Show me one girl who wants to be the stepsister.”

— Alber Elbaz

50. “I think that we are in a very strange time, when everybody is thinking about what is going to happen, and everybody is kind of cleaning house a little bit. In the fashion world, we are doing something similar. We are taking the fake out and being a little bit more real and simple.”

— Alber Elbaz