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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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Alber Elbaz
Age: 59 †
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
Died: 2021
Died: April 24
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I spend my time backstage at the Lanvin shows, and when I come out at the end, all I see are people's eyes.
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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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After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’
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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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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 think 'modesty' is a beautiful word today - and a beautiful attitude.
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Fashion doesn't look good only on models, it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.
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I'm not a plastic surgeon, and I cannot change the DNA of a person, but when I see a woman try on my clothes and she feels beautiful, I know I am doing my job.
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Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.
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Fashion is not about before, it’s not about after, it’s about now
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All I want to do is make people beautiful.
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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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A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films a writer just needs to write three great books.
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If you take something out of the freezer, it's cold, but what happens when it melts? It's a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I'm more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility.
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In fashion, we have a reputation for being such a façade, fake people, but none of the fashion people who I know are fake.
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Style is the only thing you can't buy. It's not in a shopping bag, a label, or a price tag. It's something reflected from our soul to the outside world. An emotion.
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Fashion is like a fruit, you couldn't eat it a day before and you can't eat it a day after it's just about today
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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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I'm not going into the cool club. It's not my address.
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I am very much a people person.
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