Alber Elbaz Quotes

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• 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…
• I think that the lack of intuition in fashion today is one of the most dangerous things. My fear is that our business is turning…
• I like the dream, like fantasy dresses. Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o’clock at night, it doesn’t matter. I…
• What we want is clothing we think we can fly in. That's why I opened the show with flying dresses.
• I was thinking recently, If the body really is the new dress, as some are saying - with women buying boobs, butts, faces - then…
• Making them feel gorgeous and comfortable is my way of making women's lives easier,
• 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 do sport at the gym a few times a week, but I hate it. Work is my only remedy. I feel so twisted and…
• Yves Saint Laurent gave women power, Chanel liberated them and when I joined Lanvin, I thought 'what do I bring to women? One day, I…
• I created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich.
• Fashion is about having a fantasy.
• 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?
• Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.
• Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.
• If it’s not edible, it’s not food. If it’s not wearable, it’s not fashion.
• It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion,
• What is beautiful for you may not be beautiful to someone else. Or whatever is beautiful here may not be beautiful there and what is…
• H&M approached us to collaborate, and see if we could translate the dream we created at Lanvin to a wider audience, not just a dress…
• 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.
• There is nothing scarier than being ‘the designer of the moment,’ because the moment ends.

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