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Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?

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Alber Elbaz
Age: 59 †
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
Died: 2021
Died: April 24
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I don't want to see a dress with a woman. I just want to see a woman, with a beautiful dress.
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I love and respect women. I work mostly with women.
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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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Fashion is about having a fantasy.
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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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I'm not a plastic surgeon, and I cannot change the DNA of a person, but when I see a woman try on my clothes and she feels beautiful, I know I am doing my job.
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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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I feel more and more that the most beautiful people are the ones who are comfortable with themselves.
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Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.
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Style is the only thing you can't buy. It's not in a shopping bag, a label, or a price tag. It's something reflected from our soul to the outside world. An emotion.
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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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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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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 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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Making them feel gorgeous and comfortable is my way of making women's lives easier.
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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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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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We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.
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