Azzedine Alaia Quotes & Sayings

“As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.”

“There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mother's clothes, I feel that I have succeeded.”

“There was a woman in Tunisia called Madame Pinot. She was a midwife and had helped in the birth of my siblings and me. I assisted her. I helped women give birth to a lot of babies when I was very young.”

“Fashion will last forever. It will exist always. It will exist in its own way in each era.”

“I am never sure that anything's good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.”

“I don't wear perfume, and I don't like the air to be too saturated with scents.”

“I have been offered the highest paid contracts in the world. I refused them all. It's not my thing. I don't want to cheat people.”

“I like black, because for me it is a very happy color.”

“I think women should be seductive, not triste. There's enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.”

“If you're sad about what you see in the mirror when you wake up every morning, you must change it.”