100+ Alber Elbaz Quotes On Culture, Art And Education

Alber Elbaz is a Moroccan-Israeli fashion designer. He was the creative director of the French fashion house Lanvin from 2001 to 2015. He is known for his bold and elegant designs, often featuring dramatic silhouettes and intricate details. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Alber Elbaz on love, culture, art.

Top 10 Alber Elbaz Quotes

1. I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.
2. 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.
3. Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.
4. Elegant is not what you wear, and it's not about how you wear it, but it's more about who you are.
5. Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.
6. If you change a woman's look, you change her persona.
7. My dream is to be a doctor. I'm almost working in a laboratory, because I'm trying new techniques, new directions and fabrics, new weaving.
8. Sometimes you don't really need armor to feel protected. Sometimes maybe you need just a chiffon dress to hug you.
9. Fashion doesn't look good only on models, it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.
10. I don't want to see a dress with a woman. I just want to see a woman, with a beautiful dress.

Alber Elbaz Short Quotes

• I'd rather be relevant than cool.
• I think 'modesty' is a beautiful word today - and a beautiful attitude.
• Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?
• In fashion we're lucky, we make dreams come true.
• All I want to do is make people beautiful.
• Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.
• Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o'clock at night - it doesn't matter.
• I'm not going into the cool club. It's not my address.
• I am very much a people person.
• Fashion is not about before, it’s not about after, it’s about now

Alber Elbaz Quotes About Love

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. — Alber Elbaz

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. — Alber Elbaz

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. — Alber Elbaz

Fashion is instinctive and sensual. Learn to love what you wear. It should feel like eating chocolates...wi thout the calories — Alber Elbaz

All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me. — Alber Elbaz

I love to travel inside my head, take journeys toward the unknown, meet new people, dream. — Alber Elbaz

I don’t take drugs because if I did I’d love them–I’d be a junkie. And because I’m Jewish, I’d probably be a dealer, too. — Alber Elbaz

What I love in fashion is to tell a story through a creation. — Alber Elbaz

I love and respect women. I work mostly with women. — Alber Elbaz

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

Alber Elbaz Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Alber Elbaz

I always say that women are very strong and men are powerful. But beauty gives you both strength and power. I never think of it. It's just one of those natural things. It's the only thing I know how to do. — Alber Elbaz

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

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.' — Alber Elbaz

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

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. — Alber Elbaz

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. — Alber Elbaz

Style is the only thing you can't buy. It's not in a shopping bag, a label, or a price tag. It's something reflected from our soul to the outside world. An emotion. — Alber Elbaz

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. — Alber Elbaz

I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious. — Alber Elbaz

I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn't about winning or losing. It's about process, keeping it going. — Alber Elbaz

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

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. — Alber Elbaz

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 — Alber Elbaz

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. — Alber Elbaz

Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy. — Alber Elbaz

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. — Alber Elbaz

Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend. — Alber Elbaz

With fashion, I barely finish one collection before I must start another. — Alber Elbaz

What we want is clothing we think we can fly in. That's why I opened the show with flying dresses. — Alber Elbaz

Many, many times I find that whatever is looking good on the screen doesn't always look or feel good on the body. So who do we design for - do we design for the screen, or do we design for women? — Alber Elbaz

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. — Alber Elbaz

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. — Alber Elbaz

I feel more and more that the most beautiful people are the ones who are comfortable with themselves. — Alber Elbaz

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. — Alber Elbaz

I like having the freedom to dress as I desire. — Alber Elbaz

I am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from the past, people, events. — Alber Elbaz

At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow. — Alber Elbaz

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. — Alber Elbaz

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

When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within. — Alber Elbaz

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

I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, inventing. The day I cease to learn, I must stop. — Alber Elbaz

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? — Alber Elbaz

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. — Alber Elbaz

I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac. — Alber Elbaz

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. — Alber Elbaz

It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion. — Alber Elbaz

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. — 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 different — Alber Elbaz

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. — Alber Elbaz

I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes. — Alber Elbaz

When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings. — Alber Elbaz

For me, Lancome was more than just a brand. There was something very nostalgic about the name, about the whole story. — Alber Elbaz

We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work. — Alber Elbaz

I barely finish one pre-collection before I must start on another. Sales start, but I am already elsewhere creatively. The men's show is being prepared, but we also need to think about accessories, perfumes and other items. In sum, I never stop. — Alber Elbaz

Making them feel gorgeous and comfortable is my way of making women's lives easier. — Alber Elbaz

All the young people in fashion worship the people who have been around a long time. I think it is about keeping something going through the generations. Take my work: Just because I'm not 20 anymore doesn't mean that people don't appreciate what I do. — Alber Elbaz

After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’ — Alber Elbaz

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. — Alber Elbaz

There is nothing scarier than being ‘the designer of the moment,’ because the moment ends. — Alber Elbaz

The big room or big suite doesn't mean a lot to me. It is what the people do or don't do that matters. — Alber Elbaz

I created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich. — Alber Elbaz

Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don't have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I've tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it. — Alber Elbaz

In fashion, we have a reputation for being such a façade, fake people, but none of the fashion people who I know are fake. — Alber Elbaz

I spend my time backstage at the Lanvin shows, and when I come out at the end, all I see are people's eyes. — Alber Elbaz

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. — Alber Elbaz

I know amazing people in fashion who are anything but fake. They are very real and very sensitive. They are happy and sad. They are loyal friends. — Alber Elbaz

I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair. — Alber Elbaz

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. — Alber Elbaz

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

If it’s not edible, it’s not food. If it’s not wearable, it’s not fashion. — Alber Elbaz

I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail. — Alber Elbaz

Fashion is about having a fantasy. — Alber Elbaz

I think that we are in a very strange time, when everybody is thinking about what is going to happen, and everybody is kind of cleaning house a little bit. In the fashion world, we are doing something similar. We are taking the fake out and being a little bit more real and simple. — Alber Elbaz

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. — Alber Elbaz

The problem with couture is not designers; it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there. — Alber Elbaz

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. — Alber Elbaz

A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books. — Alber Elbaz

Fashion is not always about what's new, it's also about what's good. And I think if you need to see what's good, you have to be there. — Alber Elbaz

Life Lessons by Alber Elbaz

1. Alber Elbaz taught us that fashion should be about making people feel beautiful and confident, not about trends and labels.
2. He also showed us that fashion should be inclusive and accessible to everyone, regardless of size, shape, or budget.
3. Finally, Elbaz demonstrated the importance of innovation and creativity in the fashion industry, and the power of collaboration to create something truly special.