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

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.

Azzedine Alaia

fashion forever interesting

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

Azzedine Alaia

fashion beautiful beauty

I make clothes, women make fashion.

Azzedine Alaia

clothes fashion

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

Azzedine Alaia

important men thinking

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

Azzedine Alaia

fashion mind beautiful

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

Azzedine Alaia

perfection goes-on needs

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

Azzedine Alaia

very-happy black color

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

Azzedine Alaia

good-enough tomorrow today

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

Azzedine Alaia

seductive sadness thinking

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.

Azzedine Alaia

mother children thinking

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

Azzedine Alaia

wake-up mirrors morning

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.

Azzedine Alaia

fashion crazy thinking

The foundation of beauty is the body.

Azzedine Alaia

foundation body

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.

Azzedine Alaia

names people world

Bill Cunningham he knows fashion better than anybody.

Azzedine Alaia

cunninghams bills fashion

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

Azzedine Alaia

couture sample ready

I love films-they are like paintings.

Azzedine Alaia

love-films painting

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.

Azzedine Alaia

stills long way

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.

Azzedine Alaia

tunisia house years

Who can really say who invents something first in fashion?

Azzedine Alaia

fashion firsts