Alber Elbaz
Alber Elbaz
Alber Elbazis a Moroccan-Israeli fashion designer. Elbaz worked for the Paris fashion house Lanvin from 2001 until October 2015...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth12 June 1961
CityCasablanca, Morocco
CountryIsrael
hate down-and why-not
Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?
sometimes shows pragmatic
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.
dark thinking editors
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.
dream doctors trying
My dream is to be a doctor. I'm almost working in a laboratory, because I'm trying new techniques, new directions and fabrics, new weaving.
curves wrinkles why-not
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?
piano white black
Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.
party meditation television
I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.
hated shows
After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’
girl mean lines
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.
moments designer ends
There is nothing scarier than being ‘the designer of the moment,’ because the moment ends.
drug junkie dealer
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.
wrinkles hair gray
I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.
eye people ends
I spend my time backstage at the Lanvin shows, and when I come out at the end, all I see are people's eyes.
color two trying
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.