Alber Elbaz Quotes & Sayings

“To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.”

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

“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.”

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

“I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.”

“I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.”

“I am very much a people person.”

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

“I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.”

“For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.”