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By AnonymAlber Elbaz
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.
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By AnonymAlber Elbaz
All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me.
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By AnonymAlber 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.
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By AnonymAlber 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.
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By AnonymAlber 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.
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By AnonymAlber 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.
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By AnonymAlber 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.
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By AnonymAlber 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?
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By AnonymAlber Elbaz
Fashion doesn't look good only on models, it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.
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By AnonymAlber Elbaz
Fashion is instinctive and sensual. Learn to love what you wear. It should feel like eating chocolates...wi thout the calories
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By AnonymAlber Elbaz
Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.
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By AnonymAlber Elbaz
For me, Lancome was more than just a brand. There was something very nostalgic about the name, about the whole story.
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By AnonymAlber 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.
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By AnonymAlber Elbaz
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.
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By AnonymAlber Elbaz
How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street it does generate buzz.
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By AnonymAlber 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.
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By AnonymAlber 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.
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By AnonymAlber 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.
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By AnonymAlber 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.
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By AnonymAlber Elbaz
I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'
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By AnonymAlber Elbaz
I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.
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By AnonymAlber 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.
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By AnonymAlber 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.
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By AnonymAlber 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.
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By AnonymAlber 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.
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By AnonymAlber Elbaz
I created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich.
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By AnonymAlber 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.
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By AnonymAlber Elbaz
I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.
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By AnonymAlber 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.
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By AnonymAlber 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.
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By AnonymAlber Elbaz
I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.
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By AnonymAlber Elbaz
I don't want to see a dress with a woman. I just want to see a woman, with a beautiful dress.
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By AnonymAlber 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.
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By AnonymAlber Elbaz
I feel more and more that the most beautiful people are the ones who are comfortable with themselves.
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By AnonymAlber Elbaz
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.
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By AnonymAlber 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
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By AnonymAlber Elbaz
If you change a woman's look, you change her persona.
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By AnonymAlber 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.
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By AnonymAlber 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.
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By AnonymAlber 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.
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By AnonymAlber Elbaz
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.
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By AnonymAlber Elbaz
I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.
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By AnonymAlber 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.'
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By AnonymAlber Elbaz
I love and respect women. I work mostly with women.
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By AnonymAlber Elbaz
I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.
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By AnonymAlber Elbaz
I love to travel inside my head, take journeys toward the unknown, meet new people, dream.
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By AnonymAlber 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.
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By AnonymAlber Elbaz
I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, inventing. The day I cease to learn, I must stop.
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By AnonymAlber 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.
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By AnonymAlber Elbaz
In fashion we're lucky, we make dreams come true.
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