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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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Anfa
Edible
Fashion
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Wearable

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Making them feel gorgeous and comfortable is my way of making women's lives easier.
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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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I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.
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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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When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.
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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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Fashion is not about before, it’s not about after, it’s about now
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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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Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.
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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 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 you can be a designer if you don't care.
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What I love in fashion is to tell a story through a creation.
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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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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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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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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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How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street it does generate buzz.
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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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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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