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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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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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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 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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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 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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I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn't about winning or losing. It's about process, keeping it going.
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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 love women. I get along with women more than men, and I have more women friends.
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I don’t take drugs because if I did I’d love them–I’d be a junkie. And because I’m Jewish, I’d probably be a dealer, too.
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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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The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns of fashion.
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If you change a woman's look, you change her persona.
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Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.
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A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films a writer just needs to write three great books.
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All I want to do is make people beautiful.
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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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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 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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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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All the young people in fashion worship the people who have been around a long time. I think it is about keeping something going through the generations. Take my work: Just because I'm not 20 anymore doesn't mean that people don't appreciate what I do.
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