Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alber Elbaz

Fashion is instinctive and sensual. Learn to love what you wear. It should feel like eating chocolates...wi thout the calories

Alber Elbaz

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.

Alber Elbaz

I think that the lack of intuition in fashion today is one of the most dangerous things. My fear is that our business is turning into a bag business, and it's all about the bag. But it's not only about the bag. It's about the women. And it's not about a bag or a shoe or the jewelry. It's only about women. . . . Being almost politically correct and doing only what you expect without the ability to make mistakes is very dangerous to fashion. We have to go with our heart. We have to go with our intuition.

Alber Elbaz

Everybody's talking about the new democratic world and whether high fashion is relevant. But without high there is no low. I don't like to intellectualize. I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.

Alber Elbaz

How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street; it does generate buzz.

Alber Elbaz

I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.

Alber Elbaz

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.

Alber Elbaz

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.

Alber Elbaz

I think that we are in a very strange time, when everybody is thinking about what is going to happen, and everybody is kind of cleaning house a little bit. In the fashion world, we are doing something similar. We are taking the fake out and being a little bit more real and simple.

Alber Elbaz

I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn't about winning or losing. It's about process, keeping it going.

Alber Elbaz

Fashion is about having a fantasy.

Alber Elbaz

Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.

Alber Elbaz

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.

Alber Elbaz

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.

Alber Elbaz

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.

Alber Elbaz

If it’s not edible, it’s not food. If it’s not wearable, it’s not fashion.

Alber Elbaz

Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.

Alber Elbaz

With fashion, I barely finish one collection before I must start another.

Alber Elbaz

I think that because I'm overweight, [my] fantasy was lightness. So I project my fantasy to the clothes, and now all I do is light, light clothes because it's the one thing I don't have. That is why I'm too afraid to lose weight because then I might make heavy clothes.

Alber Elbaz

It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion,

Alber Elbaz

What I love in fashion is to tell a story through a creation.

Alber Elbaz

Fashion doesn't look good only on models; it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.

Alber Elbaz

Fashion is like a fruit, you couldn't eat it a day before and you can't eat it a day after; it's just about today

Alber Elbaz

Fashion is not about before, it’s not about after, it’s about now

Alber Elbaz

I like first class, but I don't like first class people - I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants, but prefer the taste of McDonalds. I like to be perfect, but I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection. I know, I am a walking contradiction.

Annie Besant

Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.

Annie Besant

In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping a scythe, a grinning skull, a threatening figure with terrible face and uplifted dart, a bony scarecrow shaking an hourglass - all that could alarm and repel has been gathered round this rightly-named King of Terrors.

Annie Lennox

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.

Annie Lennox

Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

Annie Lennox

Fashion is temporary; fashion is a race. What it's doing is giving you something that you say, "This is the outer wrapping of me." Style is something else. It's not quantifiable. Fashion is about selling. Fashion is about what's in. Style is independent of that; style is individual.

Clemence Poesy

I constantly make fashion mistakes but I think it's good to take risks.

Clemence Poesy

I think it's too bad when teenagers become conformist in terms of fashion,because it's the ideal time to go off into your own crazy thing without looking completely idiotic.

D. H. Lawrence

I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.