Alber Elbaz

I hate the word 'cool.' It gives me a rash.

— Alber Elbaz

The nature of fashion is family.

— Alber Elbaz

Stay big in your work and small in your life.

— Alber Elbaz

I'm always looking for a story.

— Alber Elbaz

I am very much a people person.

— Alber Elbaz

In fashion we're lucky, we make dreams come true.

— Alber Elbaz

I live many lives at once.

— Alber Elbaz

All I want to do is make people beautiful.

— Alber Elbaz

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

— Alber Elbaz

I'm not going into the cool club. It's not my address.

— Alber Elbaz

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

— Alber Elbaz

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

— Alber Elbaz

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

— Alber Elbaz

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

— Alber Elbaz

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

— Alber Elbaz

Nothing is ever enough for me. I'm always thinking what is wrong, what needs to be fixed.

— Alber Elbaz

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…

— Alber Elbaz

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

A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has…

— Alber Elbaz

When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.

— Alber Elbaz

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

— Alber Elbaz

I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what…

— Alber Elbaz

Mine is a job that never ends, a function where it is almost impossible to set aside time to rest or take…

— Alber Elbaz

I always say that women are very strong and men are powerful. But beauty gives you both strength and power. I never…

— Alber Elbaz

If I were a buyer today in one of the American department stores, I would go with extremes-the most beautiful, the more…

— Alber Elbaz

I barely finish one pre-collection before I must start on another. Sales start, but I am already elsewhere creatively. The men's show…

— Alber Elbaz

I always think, if I were an editor, and I was invited to a show, and I would have to wait for…

— Alber Elbaz

All the young people in fashion worship the people who have been around a long time. I think it is about keeping…

— Alber Elbaz

When you come into a house like Saint Laurent, or Chanel, or Lanvin, and you go into a place that existed before…

— Alber Elbaz

I do sport at the gym a few times a week, but I hate it. Work is my only remedy. I feel…

— Alber Elbaz

I wanted to see people from different age groups, body shapes and personalities wearing Lanvin That is what Lanvin is all about…

— 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…

— Alber Elbaz

Yves Saint Laurent gave women power, Chanel liberated them and when I joined Lanvin, I thought 'what do I bring to women?…

— Alber Elbaz

H&M approached us to collaborate, and see if we could translate the dream we created at Lanvin to a wider audience, not…

— Alber Elbaz

I was thinking recently, If the body really is the new dress, as some are saying - with women buying boobs, butts,…

— Alber Elbaz

I think that the lack of intuition in fashion today is one of the most dangerous things. My fear is that our…

— Alber Elbaz

I love and respect women. I work mostly with women.

— Alber Elbaz

Fashion is about having a fantasy.

— Alber Elbaz

I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.

— Alber Elbaz

I'd rather be relevant than cool.

— Alber Elbaz