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I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.

Alber Elbaz

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Alber Elbaz
Age: 59 †
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
Died: 2021
Died: April 24
Entrepreneur
Fashion Designer
Personal Stylist
Anfa
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Clothes
Women
Perfection

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With fashion, I barely finish one collection before I must start another.
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The problem with couture is not designers it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there.
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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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There is nothing scarier than being ‘the designer of the moment,’ because the moment ends.
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I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.
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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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We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.
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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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I was a fat child I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.
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Fashion is not about before, it’s not about after, it’s about now
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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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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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After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’
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What is beautiful for you may not be beautiful to someone else. Or whatever is beautiful here may not be beautiful there and what is sometimes beautiful today is not necessarily beautiful tomorrow. Perhaps this is the story of fashion and what makes it move forward, the fact that there is no decision whatsoever with what’s wrong.
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What I love in fashion is to tell a story through a creation.
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I think that we are in a very strange time, when everybody is thinking about what is going to happen, and everybody is kind of cleaning house a little bit. In the fashion world, we are doing something similar. We are taking the fake out and being a little bit more real and simple.
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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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