Azzedine Alaia Quotes
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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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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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I'm always telling young designers to take the time to surround themselves with women.
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Bill Cunningham he knows fashion better than anybody.
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I even do my ready-to-wear samples like couture.
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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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Who can really say who invents something first in fashion?
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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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Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.
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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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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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The foundation of beauty is the body.
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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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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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I like black, because for me it is a very happy color.
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I make clothes, women make fashion.
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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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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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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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It's important to make women feel confident, because I think they are more important than men.
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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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I love films-they are like paintings.
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