Alber Elbaz Quotes

Many young people don't know what Versace represent. I want to show what makes Versace an iconic brand.

Louis Vuitton has a long history with collaborations.

As long as I have fashion memories, Schiaparelli has been there.

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.

In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

There is a palpable sense of history in the homes that I choose to occupy. I think that's one of the reasons I gravitate towards old homes: I really like that sense of history and that sense that I am one step in a very long process that trails out in both directions around me - before me and ahead of me.

There's a special feeling that you get from Chanel that you don't get from any other show.

With a brand like Gucci, you have to give something that belongs to beautiful Italian culture in terms of craftsmanship and materials.

Loewe should be a cultural brand.

Well, that's why I really love Diego Della Valle, because he's crazy. Instead of going out to find a top business school graduate, for whom it would have taken five years to see the difference between a ballet shoe and a book, he asked me to revive the label. It's a bit like Balenciaga. Brands like Vivier are pillars - they are monuments of fashion; they are names we don't forget. But the general public doesn't necessarily know that and therefore we had to get the name re-known.

No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.

The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present.

I've always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is the infusion of a cultural dimension.

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

The past seems to infuse into the present, and in the brown, wringled faces of the old people one sees the presence of the past.

It seemed to me to be a parable of the exchange of goods, rather Marxist in some ways, in the new world of global forces. What the forgers do is write the brand name to try and change it, and it works! Loads of people buy fake Prada handbags, or Chanel sunglasses; they've been changed. They have been truly, really changed.

A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.

We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.

All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws; nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs, by imitation.

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. The guarantee of continuity is quality.

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

If you're into the brand and the heritage of the brand, you can always remember where you got your first Fred Perry Shirt, and for me I was nine years old