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The problem with couture is not designers it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there.

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 have a problem to do a collection that is a secondary line. I mean, you don’t want to be the stepsister. You want to be Cinderella. Show me one girl who wants to be the stepsister.
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I always say that women are very strong and men are powerful. But beauty gives you both strength and power. I never think of it. It's just one of those natural things. It's the only thing I know how to do.
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All I want to do is make people beautiful.
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After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’
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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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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 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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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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We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.
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A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films a writer just needs to write three great books.
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I like the dream, like fantasy dresses. Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o’clock at night, it doesn’t matter. I think it is also important for me to make it pragmatic and practical and wearable. I always say, 'If you can’t eat it, it’s not food, and if you can’t wear it, it’s not fashion, it is something else.'
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I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.
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I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.
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I'm not going into the cool club. It's not my address.
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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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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 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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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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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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I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.
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