About Alber Elbaz: Alber Elbaz is an Israeli fashion designer. Elbaz has worked for the Paris fashion house Lanvin since 2001.
The worst thing that can happen is if you're stuck within a bubble and you think that is what life is all about. It's great to see other people and hear from people of different ages and opinions.
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 mo...
I used to hate L.A., but I met such a great group of people there that I fell in love with it.
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.
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.
Fashion doesn't look good only on models; it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.
I think a good designer can exist everywhere and anywhere and all the time. It's all about being good, and I think that our job basically is to make women and men look good.
Stay big in your work and small in your life.
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.
I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.
One woman told me that every time she wears Lanvin, men fall in love with her. Another told me she wore Lanvin to face her husband's lawyer because she felt protected. If I can make men fall in love with women and if I can protect women, I think I ca...
All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me.
I love women. I get along with women more than men, and I have more women friends.
I love and respect women. I work mostly with women.
I thought, 'It doesn't matter what that woman is wearing,' but then I realised actually it's our job as designers to make women smile; to bring them the chocolate without the calories.
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 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.
Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o'clock at night - it doesn't matter.
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 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.
In high fashion, we're always accused of doing things that are not very relevant, not the real world. I know that it's important sometimes to do fantasy, but I felt like touching people and going back to different women and men, especially the idea o...
