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 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 differentCollection: Beautiful
All I want to do is make people beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street it does generate buzz.Collection: Fashion
In fashion we're lucky, we make dreams come true.Collection: Dream
Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.Collection: Piano
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.'Collection: Dream
Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.Collection: Fashion
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?Collection: Wrinkles
I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, inventing. The day I cease to learn, I must stop.Collection: Moving
I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn't about winning or losing. It's about process, keeping it going.Collection: Fashion
If I wasn't 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.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Dream
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 sometimes beautiful today is not necessarily beautiful tomorrow. Perhaps this is the story of fashion and what makes it move forward, the fact that there is no decision whatsoever with what’s wrong.Collection: Beautiful
I created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich.Collection: Sandwiches
What I love in fashion is to tell a story through a creation.Collection: Fashion
Fashion is instinctive and sensual. Learn to love what you wear. It should feel like eating chocolates...wi thout the caloriesCollection: Fashion
There is nothing scarier than being ‘the designer of the moment,’ because the moment ends.Collection: Moments
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 into a bag business, and it's all about the bag. But it's not only about the bag. It's about the women. And it's not about a bag or a shoe or the jewelry. It's only about women. . . . Being almost politically correct and doing only what you expect without the ability to make mistakes is very dangerous to fashion. We have to go with our heart. We have to go with our intuition.Collection: Fashion
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.Collection: Fashion
I don't want to see a dress with a woman. I just want to see a woman, with a beautiful dress.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Stories
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.Collection: Fashion