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To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.

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Alber Elbaz
Age: 59 †
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
Died: 2021
Died: April 24
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I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.
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Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend.
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I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, inventing. The day I cease to learn, I must stop.
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I love to travel inside my head, take journeys toward the unknown, meet new people, dream.
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Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.
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I'd rather be relevant than cool.
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I am very much a people person. If I am in a beautiful place but I don't like the people, I am miserable.
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I think 'modesty' is a beautiful word today - and a beautiful attitude.
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I am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from the past, people, events.
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Fashion is not about before, it’s not about after, it’s about now
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I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.
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If you change a woman's look, you change her persona.
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If it’s not edible, it’s not food. If it’s not wearable, it’s not fashion.
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When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.
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The nature of fashion is family. You see that at almost every house, it was owned first by a family. It wasn't owned by a bank.
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The problem with couture is not designers it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there.
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The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns of fashion.
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After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’
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