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I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'

Alber Elbaz

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Alber Elbaz
Age: 59 †
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
Died: 2021
Died: April 24
Entrepreneur
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I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.
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Run away from laziness work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.
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I think that because I'm overweight, [my] fantasy was lightness. So I project my fantasy to the clothes, and now all I do is light, light clothes because it's the one thing I don't have. That is why I'm too afraid to lose weight because then I might make heavy clothes.
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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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I love and respect women. I work mostly with women.
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Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.
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It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion.
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I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.
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We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.
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I like first class, but I don't like first class people - I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants, but prefer the taste of McDonalds. I like to be perfect, but I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection. I know, I am a walking contradiction.
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Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.
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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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For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.
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Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.
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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 love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.
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