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Fashion is about having a fantasy.

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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Anfa
Fantasy
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I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.
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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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All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me.
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I am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from the past, people, events.
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I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to 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'd rather be relevant than cool.
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Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?
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I am very much a people person. If I am in a beautiful place but I don't like the people, I am miserable.
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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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Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend.
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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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I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.
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To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.
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I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, inventing. The day I cease to learn, I must stop.
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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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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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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 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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