About Alber Elbaz: Alber Elbaz is an Israeli fashion designer. Elbaz has worked for the Paris fashion house Lanvin since 2001.
I'm always looking for a story.
How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street; it does generate buzz.
I live many lives at once.
Me, as a designer who is not exactly skinny, all I want is comfortable clothes.
When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.
The problem with couture is not designers; it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there.
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.
I'm not a religious person in the regular sense, but in the Bible you're not allowed to steal, you're not allowed to lie and you're not allowed to feel you're above other people.
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.
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.
Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.
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.
I like dresses for night; I like after-party more than party. I like the mystery; I like the dream, like fantasy dresses. I think, also, that you make women dream.
We are being accused that some models are anorexic. But we as fashion designers cannot be blamed, because you know, when I talk to women around the world, rich and poor and young and old and intellectual and not, what they want to be is skinny. You a...
I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.
My job is to do. My job is to make women beautiful. What do I have to say?
