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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.
Alber Elbaz
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Alber Elbaz
Age: 59 †
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
Died: 2021
Died: April 24
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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 love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.
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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'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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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'm not going into the cool club. It's not my address.
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I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.
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I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.
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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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Fashion is about having a fantasy.
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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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I created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich.
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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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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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When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the end of the year, I gave her the sketchbook. For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams.
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If you change a woman's look, you change her persona.
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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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Everyone wants to be young and skinny. This is awful. Curves are marvelous. Wrinkles are hypnotizing. Why not just be happy with who you are?
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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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If I were a buyer today in one of the American department stores, I would go with extremes-the most beautiful, the more expensive, the more eccentric. I would take risks. The worst thing would be to buy only the little black dress. You know why? Because everyone has it already. I would go with a purple dress, something different
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