Azzedine Alaia
Azzedine Alaia

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

Azzedine Alaia
Azzedine Alaia

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

Azzedine Alaia
Azzedine Alaia

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

Azzedine Alaia
Azzedine Alaia

I make clothes; women make fashion.

Azzedine Alaia
Azzedine Alaia

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

Azzedine Alaia
Azzedine Alaia

Beyonce is a beautiful, elegant woman who is also a wonderful dancer. And her voice is sublime. Just like her husband, Jay-Z, Beyonce has real talent. They are both the kind of truly great artist who will be remembered by history. Their child will be lucky to have such talented parents.

Azzedine Alaia
Azzedine Alaia

'Vogue' remains while its fashion editors come and go.

Azzedine Alaia
Azzedine Alaia

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

Azzedine Alaia
Azzedine Alaia

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.

Azzedine Alaia
Azzedine Alaia

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

Azzedine Alaia
Azzedine Alaia

The foundation of beauty is the body.

Azzedine Alaia
Azzedine Alaia

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

Azzedine Alaia
Azzedine Alaia

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

Azzedine Alaia
Azzedine Alaia

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

Azzedine Alaia
Azzedine Alaia

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

Azzedine Alaia
Azzedine Alaia

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

Azzedine Alaia
Azzedine Alaia

Who will remember Anna Wintour in the history of fashion? No one.

Azzedine Alaia
Azzedine Alaia

I would rather die than see my face in a car advertisement.

Azzedine Alaia
Azzedine Alaia

Karl Lagerfeld never touched a pair of scissors in his life.

Azzedine Alaia
Azzedine Alaia

Bill Cunningham... he knows fashion better than anybody.