Alber Elbaz Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I don't want to see a dress with a woman. I just want to see a woman, with a beautiful dress.”
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“I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.”
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“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 received an SMS from a friend in New York - she was in a taxi on the way to court to face her arsehole ex-husband, and she said to me 'Alber, I am wearing a Lanvin dress, and I feel so protected.' That to me was the biggest compliment I ever received. To have a 500 gram piece of silk make her feel protected - that made me very happy indeed.”
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“If you change a woman’s look, you change her persona”
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“Fashion is not about before, it’s not about after, it’s about now”
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“It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion,”
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“When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.”
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“Making them feel gorgeous and comfortable is my way of making women's lives easier,”
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“Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.”
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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 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.”
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“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”
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“Elegant is not what you wear, and it's not about how you wear it, but it's more about who you are.”
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“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 think it is also important for me to make it pragmatic and practical and wearable. I always say, 'If you can’t eat it, it’s not food, and if you can’t wear it, it’s not fashion, it is something else.'”
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“Sometimes you don't really need armor to feel protected. Sometimes maybe you need just a chiffon dress to hug you.”
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“I was thinking recently, If the body really is the new dress, as some are saying - with women buying boobs, butts, faces - then who needs a dressmaker? So I started designing spring like a plastic surgeon - everything stretchy and nude. But after three weeks, I was so bored with myself and the world, I began adding diamond butterflies and chiffon and colors. I realized that fashion is not about second skin. It's not the perfect white shirt or camel jacket. What women need is a dream.”
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“Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.”
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“Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.”
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“I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.”
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“If you take something out of the freezer, it's cold, but what happens when it melts? It's a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I'm more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility.”
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“We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.”
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“I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“If I were a buyer today in one of the American department stores, I would go with extremes-the most beautiful, the more expensive, the more eccentric. I would take risks. The worst thing would be to buy only the little black dress. You know why? Because everyone has it already. I would go with a purple dress, something different”
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“I love and respect women. I work mostly with women.”
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“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.”
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“In fashion we're lucky, we make dreams come true.”
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“I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.”
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