Quotes from Alber Elbaz

If I wasn't a designer I would love to be a doctor. That is my fantasy, my dream. A doctor will give you a tablet if you have a headache and I will give you a dress and we both make you feel good.

A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.

I love to travel inside my head, take journeys toward the unknown, meet new people, dream.

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.

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

I hate bridges. I'm always very insecure on bridges.

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.

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.

I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.

Me, as a designer who is not exactly skinny, all I want is comfortable clothes.

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

All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me.

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.

I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.

When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.

Women try to be the best everywhere, and it's impossible. I want my clothes to give women the freedom to just be - I want them to put on my dresses and shine.

We are being accused that some models are anorexic. But we as fashion designers cannot be blamed, because you know, when I talk to women around the world, rich and poor and young and old and intellectual and not, what they want to be is skinny. You ask them, 'What is your dream?' It's to be skinny. That's all they want.

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.

It's a major job to help men and women look beautiful.

I used to hate L.A., but I met such a great group of people there that I fell in love with it.

Mine is a job that never ends, a function where it is almost impossible to set aside time to rest or take a breather.

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

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

Making them feel gorgeous and comfortable is my way of making women's lives easier.