Azzedine Alaia Quotes

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Azzedine Alaia

Profession : Designer

Birth : February 26, 1940

When you have one idea per year, it's already a miracle!

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The foundation of beauty is the body.

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As for success, I don't care for it. It is a fragile thing.

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I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'

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Fashion will last forever. It will exist always. It will exist in its own way in each era.

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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 have total confidence in Beaute Prestige International to accompany me in creating a perfume that interprets my work and my world.

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As I said many times, the fashion world, its system, can be disturbing.

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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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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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I put myself on the same level as everyone else around me - from the directrice to the workman, everyone. Except my pets - they are the Kings; you must treat them like royalty.

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I love film - it's like painting.

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You have to take things with a lot of laughter. I laugh with everyone; this way, I will be able to die happy.

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The danger is we're losing sight of what women really want to wear.

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I used to spend my nights oversewing dresses for a local dressmaker in order to pay for my school equipment.

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I want to create a foundation, like a maison, in my home in the Marais. I am going to leave everything there. I am only passing through. I'm not a proprietor of anything, even if I have homes and things.

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I love American girls. They're audacious. They put more outrageous things on their bodies than anybody.

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I work for women. I only think for them. If I didn't like women, I wouldn't do this job.

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You know Sarkozy offered me the Legion d'honneur medal? I refused. People said I refused because I don't like Sarkozy, but that's ridiculous. I refused because I don't like decorations - except on women.

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I take it to heart that, for example, there aren't enough funds for AIDS research, but people pay 20 times the value of an item of clothing.

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