Alber Elbaz Quotes

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral.

I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.

Function is fundamental to design, of course. If something doesn't work, it's a bad product, and I certainly get frustrated by things that aren't functional. But there has to be more than function. A house has to function, but if that's all it does, you don't love it.

I think fashion and artistry go hand in hand.

I loved dressing Elizabeth Hurley. I thought that was wonderful. She was one of those women who is so aware of how she looks in everything.

Scheherezade is easy; a little black dress is difficult.

My obsession is to make women beautiful. When you create with that in mind, things can't go out of fashion.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

We like to believe our fashion is growing.

I want to dress well. I want to look good.

In general, fashion is challenging. Everything from clothes to fragrances.

Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.

Fashion and style is just that. Fashion and style. It's not brain surgery.

I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.

I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

Beauty, by way of fashion, has to do with confidence, with flattering silhouettes, with patterns, with proper fit for body type, and with an abundance of self-love!

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.