Top 80 Alber Elbaz Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn’t about winning or losing. It’s about process, keeping it going.”

— Alber Elbaz

52. “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.”

— Alber Elbaz

53. “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.”

— Alber Elbaz

54. “I don’t think you can be a designer if you don’t care.”

— Alber Elbaz

55. “Fashion is not about before, it’s not about after, it’s about now.”

— Alber Elbaz

56. “When I’m traveling the world, I don’t ever look anymore at the geography – just enough to catch galleries and paintings.”

— Alber Elbaz

57. “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.”

— Alber Elbaz

58. “I feel more and more that the most beautiful people are the ones who are comfortable with themselves.”

— Alber Elbaz

59. “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.”

— Alber Elbaz

60. “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.”

— Alber Elbaz

61. “I don’t go out to parties because I’d look terrible in pictures. My escape is television – it’s like meditation to me.”

— Alber Elbaz

62. “I’m not going into the cool club. It’s not my address.”

— Alber Elbaz

63. “A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.”

— Alber Elbaz

64. “We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn’t work.”

— Alber Elbaz

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

— Alber Elbaz

66. “There is nothing scarier than being ‘the designer of the moment,’ because the moment ends.”

— Alber Elbaz

67. “I barely finish one pre-collection before I must start on another. Sales start, but I am already elsewhere creatively. The men’s show is being prepared, but we also need to think about accessories, perfumes and other items. In sum, I never stop.”

— Alber Elbaz

68. “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.”

— Alber Elbaz

69. “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.”

— Alber Elbaz

70. “I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.”

— Alber Elbaz

71. “I am very much a people person.”

— Alber Elbaz

72. “I love women. I get along with women more than men, and I have more women friends.”

— Alber Elbaz

73. “I created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich.”

— Alber Elbaz

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

— Alber Elbaz

75. “Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.”

— Alber Elbaz

76. “With fashion, I barely finish one collection before I must start another.”

— Alber Elbaz

77. “How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street; it does generate buzz.”

— Alber Elbaz

78. “I am very much a people person. If I am in a beautiful place but I don’t like the people, I am miserable.”

— Alber Elbaz

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

— Alber Elbaz

80. “The problem with couture is not designers; it’s what happens when the couturier will no longer be there.”

— Alber Elbaz

81. “Many, many times I find that whatever is looking good on the screen doesn’t always look or feel good on the body. So who do we design for – do we design for the screen, or do we design for women?”

— Alber Elbaz

82. “All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me.”

— Alber Elbaz

83. “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.”

— Alber Elbaz

84. “I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, ‘If I were a woman, would I wear it?’”

— Alber Elbaz

85. “I always think, if I were an editor, and I was invited to a show, and I would have to wait for 45 minutes in the dark or in the cold or in the heat, maybe I would like to have a fresh drink or a piece of chocolate.”

— Alber Elbaz

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

— Alber Elbaz