Alber Elbaz Quotes - Page 3

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 horrible in the morning, but then I go to the office and I start feeling better. Work is my Tylenol. Extra-strength.

I think that because I'm overweight, [my] fantasy was lightness. So I project my fantasy to the clothes, and now all I do is light, light clothes because it's the one thing I don't have. That is why I'm too afraid to lose weight because then I might make heavy clothes.

I am very much a people person. If I am in a beautiful place but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

I'm not a plastic surgeon, and I cannot change the DNA of a person, but when I see a woman try on my clothes and she feels beautiful, I know I am doing my job.

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 for less. I have said in the past that I would never do a mass-market collection, but what intrigued me was the idea of H&M going luxury rather than Lanvin going public. This has been an exceptional exercise, where two companies at opposite poles can work together because we share the same philosophy of bringing joy and beauty to men and women around the world.

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.

The whole season thing is nonsense. It's either beautiful or it isn't. That's something I really learned when I started collecting dresses.

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.

I am very much a people person.

I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'

I wanted to see people from different age groups, body shapes and personalities wearing Lanvin That is what Lanvin is all about and represents - we dont only do clothes for 20-year-old girls. I love to see mature women wearing Lanvin as well. I love wrinkles, I love grey hair.

I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.

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

All I want to do is make people beautiful.

How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street it does generate buzz.

In fashion we're lucky, we make dreams come true.

I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.

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

I love women. I get along with women more than men, and I have more women friends.

I always think, if I were an editor, and I was invited to a show, and I would have to wait for 45 minutes in the dark or in the cold or in the heat, maybe I would like to have a fresh drink or a piece of chocolate.

Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.

I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don't listen to the formula makers. I think maybe I have a selective hearing disorder.

I work on fittings, mostly. You know, I sketch less and less in my work. I sketch for the show sometimes, but then it becomes more conceptual. But when I don't sketch, it becomes more pragmatic.

I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.

The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns of fashion.