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All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me.

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Alber Elbaz
Age: 59 †
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
Died: 2021
Died: April 24
Entrepreneur
Fashion Designer
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I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.
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I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don't listen to the formula makers. I think maybe I have a selective hearing disorder.
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I wanted to see people from different age groups, body shapes and personalities wearing Lanvin That is what Lanvin is all about and represents - we dont only do clothes for 20-year-old girls. I love to see mature women wearing Lanvin as well. I love wrinkles, I love grey hair.
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I am very much a people person.
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There is nothing scarier than being ‘the designer of the moment,’ because the moment ends.
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All the young people in fashion worship the people who have been around a long time. I think it is about keeping something going through the generations. Take my work: Just because I'm not 20 anymore doesn't mean that people don't appreciate what I do.
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I work on fittings, mostly. You know, I sketch less and less in my work. I sketch for the show sometimes, but then it becomes more conceptual. But when I don't sketch, it becomes more pragmatic.
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I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.
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Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.
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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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When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.
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I know amazing people in fashion who are anything but fake. They are very real and very sensitive. They are happy and sad. They are loyal friends.
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Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o'clock at night - it doesn't matter.
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If you change a woman's look, you change her persona.
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What we want is clothing we think we can fly in. That's why I opened the show with flying dresses.
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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 don’t take drugs because if I did I’d love them–I’d be a junkie. And because I’m Jewish, I’d probably be a dealer, too.
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I'd rather be relevant than cool.
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For me, Lancome was more than just a brand. There was something very nostalgic about the name, about the whole story.
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When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.
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