Azzedine Alaia Quotes

• Fashion will last forever. It will exist always. It will exist in its own way in each era. I live in the moment. It's interesting to know the old methods. But you have to live in the present moment.

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  Fashion, Interesting, Forever

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• When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Fashion

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• I make clothes, women make fashion.

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  Fashion, Clothes

  "The art of being Azzedine Alaïa, darling designer of fashion insiders" by Kate Finnigan, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2018.

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• It's important to make women feel confident, because I think they are more important than men.

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  Men, Thinking, Important

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• Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.

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  Perfection, Needs, Goes On

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• My obsession is to make women beautiful. When you create with that in mind, things can't go out of fashion.

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  Beautiful, Fashion, Mind

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• I like black, because for me it is a very happy color.

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  Color, Black, Very Happy

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• I am never sure that anythings good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.

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  Today, Tomorrow, Good Enough

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• There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mothers clothes, I feel that I have succeeded.

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  Mother, Children, Thinking

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• The foundation of beauty is the body.

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  Foundation, Body

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• I think women should be seductive, not triste. Theres enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.

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  Sadness, Thinking, Seductive

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• The present fashion system is too hard - there are too many collections. The designers have no time to think! Money is too important. Schedules are too crazy.

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  Fashion, Crazy, Thinking

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• If you're sad about what you see in the mirror when you wake up every morning, you must change it.

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  Morning, Mirrors, Wake Up

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• I have been offered the highest paid contracts in the world. I refused them all. It's not my thing. I don't want to cheat people. And there are certain people I am allergic to. I even intervene when I don't like a customer; I rush in and check all the names. If I don't like them, I don't take them.

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  Names, People, World

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• I love films-they are like paintings.

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  Painting, Love Films

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• I even do my ready-to-wear samples like couture.

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  Couture, Sample, Ready

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• Bill Cunningham he knows fashion better than anybody.

  Azzedine Alaia

  Fashion, Cunninghams, Bills

  "Alaïa's Not Lagerfeld's Biggest Fan" by Britt Aboutaleb, www.elle.com. June 23, 2011.

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• Who can really say who invents something first in fashion?

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  Fashion, Firsts

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• I'm happier about my friends than I am about my work. I still have a long way to go with work. My friends, that's the one thing I'm sure about.

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  Long, Way, Stills

  Interview with Stephanie Seymour Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2009.

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• I'm always telling young designers to take the time to surround themselves with women.

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  Designer, Young, Surround

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• I'm working 24 hours a day. I have had a house in Tunisia for 20 years, and I never have time to go because there are collections, fittings.

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  Years, House, Tunisia

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• As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.

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  Cousin, Children, Grandmother

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