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I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.

Alber Elbaz

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Alber Elbaz
Age: 59 †
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
Died: 2021
Died: April 24
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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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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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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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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 not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.
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Everybody's talking about the new democratic world and whether high fashion is relevant. But without high there is no low. I don't like to intellectualize. I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.
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All I want to do is make people beautiful.
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A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.
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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 instinctive and sensual. Learn to love what you wear. It should feel like eating chocolates...wi thout the calories
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After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’
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The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns of fashion.
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My dream is to be a doctor. I'm almost working in a laboratory, because I'm trying new techniques, new directions and fabrics, new weaving.
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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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To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.
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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 feel more and more that the most beautiful people are the ones who are comfortable with themselves.
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I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn't about winning or losing. It's about process, keeping it going.
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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?'
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I think 'modesty' is a beautiful word today - and a beautiful attitude.
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