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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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Alber Elbaz
Age: 59 †
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
Died: 2021
Died: April 24
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When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.
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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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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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Fashion is like a fruit, you couldn't eat it a day before and you can't eat it a day after it's just about today
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When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the end of the year, I gave her the sketchbook. For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams.
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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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If it’s not edible, it’s not food. If it’s not wearable, it’s not fashion.
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Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.
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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 think 'modesty' is a beautiful word today - and a beautiful attitude.
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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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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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