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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.
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 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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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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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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The problem with couture is not designers it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there.
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With fashion, I barely finish one collection before I must start another.
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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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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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Everybody's talking about the new democratic world and whether high fashion is relevant. But without high there is no low. I don't like to intellectualize. I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.
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If you take something out of the freezer, it's cold, but what happens when it melts? It's a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I'm more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility.
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Run away from laziness work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.
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I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.
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I know amazing people in fashion who are anything but fake. They are very real and very sensitive. They are happy and sad. They are loyal friends.
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I created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich.
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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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My dream is to be a doctor. I'm almost working in a laboratory, because I'm trying new techniques, new directions and fabrics, new weaving.
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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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I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'
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