Azzedine Alaïa (Arabic: عز الدين علي ة French pronunciation: [azedin alaˈja], pronunciation: Alaya) is a Tunisian-born couturier and shoe designer, particularly successful since the 1980s. Read full biography of Azzedine Alaia →
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.
I make clothes; women make fashion.
It's important to make women feel confident, because I think they are more important than men.
As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.
As I said many times, the fashion world, its system, can be disturbing.
Ballet costumes are easier that opera because they are designed for movement.
I am never sure that anything's good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.
I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'
I even do my ready-to-wear samples like couture.
I love American girls. They're audacious. They put more outrageous things on their bodies than anybody.
I've been wearing Chinese clothes since I was 14. I can't wear a suit. I'm small, and when I put on a suit, it's not possible.
If I don't have a model in front of me, I don't have an idea.
If you're sad about what you see in the mirror when you wake up every morning, you must change it.
Azzedine Alaïa (Arabic: عز الدين علي ة French pronunciation: [azedin alaˈja], pronunciation: Alaya) is a Tunisian-born couturier and shoe designer, particularly successful since the 1980s.