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Alber Elbaz
Israeli
Designer
Born:
Feb 6
,
1961
Fashion
Me
People
Think
Women
You
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If I am in a beautiful place, but I don't like the people, I am miserable.
Alber Elbaz
Beautiful
People
Miserable
Like
Beautiful Place
Am
Place
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.
Alber Elbaz
You
Bible
Lie
People
Sense
Other
Religious
Religious Person
Above
Steal
Allowed
Feel
Person
Regular
When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the end of the year, I gave her the sketchbook. For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams.
Alber Elbaz
Teacher
Dreams
Day
Me
Every Day
Old
Year
Every
Gave
Dresses
About
She
Years
End
Did
Either
Sketch
Wore
Sketching
Fantasy
Her
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.
Alber Elbaz
Culture
Try
Every
Heritage
Collection
Tried
Fabric
Dress
Color
Almost
Know-How
Couture
References
Update
Same
Different
Coat
Two
Adapt
Many, many times I find that whatever is looking good on the screen doesn't always look or feel good on the body. So who do we design for - do we design for the screen, or do we design for women?
Alber Elbaz
Good
Feel Good
Women
Looking
Whatever
Design
Find
Feel
Look
Looking Good
Always
Times
Screen
Body
Who
Many
If you take something out of the freezer, it's cold, but what happens when it melts? It's a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I'm more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility.
Alber Elbaz
You
Soul
Party
Cold
Out
Collection
Something
More
Emotion
Take
Individuality
Longevity
Freezer
Does
Person
Happens
Interested
Mean
Certain
Cool
Things
Fragility
Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.
Alber Elbaz
Work
Heart
Work Hard
Laziness
Marketing
Run
Dream
Intuition
Touch
Directors
Listen
Hard
Away
I used to hate L.A., but I met such a great group of people there that I fell in love with it.
Alber Elbaz
Love
Great
Hate
People
Met
Group
Fell
Used
I am very much a people person.
Alber Elbaz
People
People Person
Am
Very
Person
Much
I think a good designer can exist everywhere and anywhere and all the time. It's all about being good, and I think that our job basically is to make women and men look good.
Alber Elbaz
Time
Good
Women
Job
Men
Think
Our
Everywhere
About
Look
Make
Exist
Women And Men
Being
Anywhere
Designer
Basically
It's a major job to help men and women look beautiful.
Alber Elbaz
Beautiful
Women
Job
Men
Men And Women
Major
Look
Help
I hate the word 'cool.' It gives me a rash.
Alber Elbaz
Me
Hate
Word
Rash
Gives
Cool
The worst thing that can happen is if you're stuck within a bubble and you think that is what life is all about. It's great to see other people and hear from people of different ages and opinions.
Alber Elbaz
Life
Great
You
People
Think
Other
Worst
Worst Thing
See
About
Stuck
Bubble
Within
Opinions
Hear
Different
Different Ages
Happen
Ages
Thing
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
Work
Fashion
People
Nuns
Kind
Photographers
Like
Models
Really
Who
Hard-Working
Lives
Designers
Fashion is not enough anymore. It's not just about what you wear. I mean, I don't know how many women can afford to take the time to come to Paris for three fittings.
Alber Elbaz
Time
Fashion
You
Women
Three
Enough
Wear
About
Paris
Take
Come
Know
How
Afford
Just
Anymore
Mean
Many
I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don't listen to the formula makers. I think maybe I have a selective hearing disorder.
Alber Elbaz
Think
Out
Selective
Know
Makers
Hearing
Committee
Listen
Maybe
Where
Want
Decide
Formula
Disorder
Switzerland
I always say that women are very strong and men are powerful. But beauty gives you both strength and power. I never think of it. It's just one of those natural things. It's the only thing I know how to do.
Alber Elbaz
Strength
You
Women
Natural
Strong
Men
Power
Beauty
Think
Say
Those
Only
Gives
Both
Never
Powerful
Know
Always
How
Women Are
Very
Just
The Only Thing
Just One
Thing
Things
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.
Alber Elbaz
Doctor
Dream
Fabrics
Weaving
Directions
Almost
New
Because
Laboratory
Trying
Working
Techniques
Our clothes are not always beautiful on the hanger, but put them on, and they fit like bathing suits.
Alber Elbaz
Beautiful
Suits
Clothes
Bathing
Our
Put
Like
Always
Fit
Them
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
You
Think
About
Delicious
Roast
Like
Know
Said
Always
Chicken
In fashion, the time is so short, and even with pre-collection, there are not only dresses, shoes, bags, and furs but now raincoats and T-shirts. It's just an endless amount of work that we have to produce in no time.
Alber Elbaz
Work
Time
Fashion
Shoes
Dresses
Only
No Time
Bags
Endless
Short
Just
Produce
Even
Now
Amount
I do sport at the gym a few times a week, but I hate it. Work is my only remedy. I feel so twisted and horrible in the morning, but then I go to the office and I start feeling better. Work is my Tylenol. Extra-strength.
Alber Elbaz
Work
Morning
Hate
Better
Feeling
Few
Horrible
Gym
Only
Week
Remedy
Feel
Sport
Go
Times
Office
Then
Start
Twisted
Nothing is ever enough for me. I'm always thinking what is wrong, what needs to be fixed.
Alber Elbaz
Needs
Me
Nothing
Thinking
Enough
Wrong
Always
Fixed
Ever
Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o'clock at night - it doesn't matter.
Alber Elbaz
Morning
Women
Matter
Dream
Night
I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'
Alber Elbaz
Myself
Woman
Every
Think
Would
Inside
Wear
Dress
Put
Always
Am
Were
Trying
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.
Alber Elbaz
Morning
Dinner
Definition
Wear
Weekend
Never
Always
Jacket
Goes
Works
Evening
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