Alber Elbaz

Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o'clock at night - it doesn't matter. ”

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. ”

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. ”

Commercial' is not the word that has to be said only by CEOs. It has to be something that is maybe the essence of design, because design has some sort of art in it and creation, but it's also some object that you have to use. There is also this pragmatic end to it. ”

Our clothes are not always beautiful on the hanger, but put them on, and they fit like bathing suits. ”

I wanted to go out of fashion, to study medicine. I thought, you know, who needs fashion? How important is it if you wear a red dress and an orange jacket? It's not, really. ”

Nothing is ever enough for me. I'm always thinking what is wrong, what needs to be fixed. ”

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. ”

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. ”

Stay big in your work and small in your life. ”