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
beautiful dresses want
I don't want to see a dress with a woman. I just want to see a woman, with a beautiful dress.
moving-forward creating desire
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.
fashion real people
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.
beautiful jobs dna
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.
fashion house firsts
The nature of fashion is family. You see that at almost every house, it was owned first by a family. It wasn't owned by a bank.
dream fashion morning
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.'
fashion mean thinking
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.
flats
Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend.
relevant
I'd rather be relevant than cool.
dream philosophy exercise
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.
beautiful dresses nonsense
The whole season thing is nonsense. It's either beautiful or it isn't. That's something I really learned when I started collecting dresses.
fashion ifs
If it’s not edible, it’s not food. If it’s not wearable, it’s not fashion.
beautiful attitude thinking
I think 'modesty' is a beautiful word today - and a beautiful attitude.
fashion skins buying
Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.