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I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.

Alber Elbaz

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Alber Elbaz
Age: 59 †
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
Died: 2021
Died: April 24
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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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I'd rather be relevant than cool.
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What we want is clothing we think we can fly in. That's why I opened the show with flying 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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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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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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Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.
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I love women. I get along with women more than men, and I have more women friends.
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What I love in fashion is to tell a story through a creation.
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I don’t take drugs because if I did I’d love them–I’d be a junkie. And because I’m Jewish, I’d probably be a dealer, too.
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Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.
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Fashion is not about before, it’s not about after, it’s about now
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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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I'm not going into the cool club. It's not my address.
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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 do sport at the gym a few times a week, but I hate it. Work is my only remedy. I feel so twisted and horrible in the morning, but then I go to the office and I start feeling better. Work is my Tylenol. Extra-strength.
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After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’
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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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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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