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If it’s not edible, it’s not food. If it’s not wearable, it’s not fashion.

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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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Wearable
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Fashion
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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 work on fittings, mostly. You know, I sketch less and less in my work. I sketch for the show sometimes, but then it becomes more conceptual. But when I don't sketch, it becomes more pragmatic.
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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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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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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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I am very much a people person.
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Fashion is instinctive and sensual. Learn to love what you wear. It should feel like eating chocolates...wi thout the calories
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If I were a buyer today in one of the American department stores, I would go with extremes-the most beautiful, the more expensive, the more eccentric. I would take risks. The worst thing would be to buy only the little black dress. You know why? Because everyone has it already. I would go with a purple dress, something different
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With fashion, I barely finish one collection before I must start another.
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Style is the only thing you can't buy. It's not in a shopping bag, a label, or a price tag. It's something reflected from our soul to the outside world. An emotion.
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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 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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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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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 am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.
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I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.
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I love and respect women. I work mostly with women.
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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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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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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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