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I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.

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
Gray
Hair
Women
Love
Wrinkles

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In fashion, we have a reputation for being such a façade, fake people, but none of the fashion people who I know are fake.
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I love to travel inside my head, take journeys toward the unknown, meet new people, dream.
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When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.
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What I love in fashion is to tell a story through a creation.
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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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The nature of fashion is family. You see that at almost every house, it was owned first by a family. It wasn't owned by a bank.
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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 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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All I want to do is make people beautiful.
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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 love women. I get along with women more than men, and I have more women friends.
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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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Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.
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In fashion we're lucky, we make dreams come true.
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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 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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Making them feel gorgeous and comfortable is my way of making women's lives easier.
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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.
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