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Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?
Alber Elbaz
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Alber Elbaz
Age: 59 †
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
Died: 2021
Died: April 24
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Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.
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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 think you can be a designer if you don't care.
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Many, many times I find that whatever is looking good on the screen doesn't always look or feel good on the body. So who do we design for - do we design for the screen, or do we design for women?
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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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All I want to do is make people beautiful.
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I wanted to see people from different age groups, body shapes and personalities wearing Lanvin That is what Lanvin is all about and represents - we dont only do clothes for 20-year-old girls. I love to see mature women wearing Lanvin as well. I love wrinkles, I love grey hair.
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Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend.
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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 want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don't listen to the formula makers. I think maybe I have a selective hearing disorder.
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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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After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’
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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 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 always think, if I were an editor, and I was invited to a show, and I would have to wait for 45 minutes in the dark or in the cold or in the heat, maybe I would like to have a fresh drink or a piece of chocolate.
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At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.
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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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Everyone wants to be young and skinny. This is awful. Curves are marvelous. Wrinkles are hypnotizing. Why not just be happy with who you are?
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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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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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