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Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.

Alber Elbaz

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Alber Elbaz
Age: 59 †
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
Died: 2021
Died: April 24
Entrepreneur
Fashion Designer
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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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Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don't have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I've tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it.
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After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’
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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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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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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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Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o'clock at night - it doesn't matter.
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Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.
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Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.
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Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend.
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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 always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.
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Sometimes you don't really need armor to feel protected. Sometimes maybe you need just a chiffon dress to hug you.
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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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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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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 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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In fashion, we have a reputation for being such a façade, fake people, but none of the fashion people who I know are fake.
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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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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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