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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
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Women
Perfection
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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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Run away from laziness work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.
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The whole season thing is nonsense. It's either beautiful or it isn't. That's something I really learned when I started collecting dresses.
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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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I barely finish one pre-collection before I must start on another. Sales start, but I am already elsewhere creatively. The men's show is being prepared, but we also need to think about accessories, perfumes and other items. In sum, I never stop.
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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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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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Making them feel gorgeous and comfortable is my way of making women's lives easier.
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How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street it does generate buzz.
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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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After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’
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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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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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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 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 don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.
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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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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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