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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
Edible
Fashion
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I always say that women are very strong and men are powerful. But beauty gives you both strength and power. I never think of it. It's just one of those natural things. It's the only thing I know how to do.
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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 created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich.
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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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Fashion is not about before, it’s not about after, it’s about now
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For me, Lancome was more than just a brand. There was something very nostalgic about the name, about the whole story.
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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'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.
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I think that because I'm overweight, [my] fantasy was lightness. So I project my fantasy to the clothes, and now all I do is light, light clothes because it's the one thing I don't have. That is why I'm too afraid to lose weight because then I might make heavy clothes.
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Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.
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Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.
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Fashion doesn't look good only on models, it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.
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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 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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Run away from laziness work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.
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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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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 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 was a fat child I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.
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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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