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Fashion is not about buying a second skin. 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
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I like first class, but I don't like first class people - I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants, but prefer the taste of McDonalds. I like to be perfect, but I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection. I know, I am a walking contradiction.
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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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With fashion, I barely finish one collection before I must start another.
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What I love in fashion is to tell a story through a creation.
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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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All I want to do is make people beautiful.
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A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.
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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 was a fat child I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.
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I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.
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Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend.
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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 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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I do sport at the gym a few times a week, but I hate it. Work is my only remedy. I feel so twisted and horrible in the morning, but then I go to the office and I start feeling better. Work is my Tylenol. Extra-strength.
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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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I barely finish one pre-collection before I must start on another. Sales start, but I am already elsewhere creatively. The men's show is being prepared, but we also need to think about accessories, perfumes and other items. In sum, I never stop.
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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 am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.
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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 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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