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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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Alber Elbaz
Age: 59 †
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
Died: 2021
Died: April 24
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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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I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.
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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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How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street it does generate buzz.
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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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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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After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’
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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 love and respect women. I work mostly with women.
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Many, many times I find that whatever is looking good on the screen doesn't always look or feel good on the body. So who do we design for - do we design for the screen, or do we design for women?
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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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Fashion is not always about what's new, it's also about what's good. And I think if you need to see what's good, you have to be there.
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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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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'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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Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.
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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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I am very much a people person.
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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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