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Making them feel gorgeous and comfortable is my way of making women's lives easier.

Alber Elbaz

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Alber Elbaz
Age: 59 †
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
Died: 2021
Died: April 24
Entrepreneur
Fashion Designer
Personal Stylist
Anfa
Comfortable
Easier
Making
Lives
Women
Feel
Feels
Way
Gorgeous

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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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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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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 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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What we want is clothing we think we can fly in. That's why I opened the show with flying dresses.
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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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Fashion is about having a fantasy.
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The big room or big suite doesn't mean a lot to me. It is what the people do or don't do that matters.
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I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.
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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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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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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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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 you can be a designer if you don't care.
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I was a fat child I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.
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Fashion is not always about what's new, it's also about what's good. And I think if you need to see what's good, you have to be there.
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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 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 feel more and more that the most beautiful people are the ones who are comfortable with themselves.
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