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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.

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 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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I feel more and more that the most beautiful people are the ones who are comfortable with themselves.
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What is beautiful for you may not be beautiful to someone else. Or whatever is beautiful here may not be beautiful there and what is sometimes beautiful today is not necessarily beautiful tomorrow. Perhaps this is the story of fashion and what makes it move forward, the fact that there is no decision whatsoever with what’s wrong.
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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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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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Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.
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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 am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.
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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 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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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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If you change a woman's look, you change her persona.
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Elegant is not what you wear, and it's not about how you wear it, but it's more about who you are.
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Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.
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With fashion, I barely finish one collection before I must start another.
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The problem with couture is not designers it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there.
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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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I am very much a people person.
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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 need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, inventing. The day I cease to learn, I must stop.
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