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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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Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.
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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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Fashion is about having a fantasy.
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I love to travel inside my head, take journeys toward the unknown, meet new people, dream.
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I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.
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If I wasn't a designer I would love to be a doctor. That is my fantasy, my dream. A doctor will give you a tablet if you have a headache and I will give you a dress and we both make you feel good.
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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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All I want to do is make people beautiful.
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I'd rather be relevant than cool.
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When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.
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Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.
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I like the dream, like fantasy dresses. Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o’clock at night, it doesn’t matter. I think it is also important for me to make it pragmatic and practical and wearable. I always say, 'If you can’t eat it, it’s not food, and if you can’t wear it, it’s not fashion, it is something else.'
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I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.
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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 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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I love women. I get along with women more than men, and I have more women friends.
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Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don't have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I've tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it.
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Sometimes you don't really need armor to feel protected. Sometimes maybe you need just a chiffon dress to hug you.
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Fashion is not about before, it’s not about after, it’s about now
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