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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
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I'd rather be relevant than cool.
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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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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 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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My dream is to be a doctor. I'm almost working in a laboratory, because I'm trying new techniques, new directions and fabrics, new weaving.
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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 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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To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.
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Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?
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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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If it’s not edible, it’s not food. If it’s not wearable, it’s not fashion.
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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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In fashion we're lucky, we make dreams come true.
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The nature of fashion is family. You see that at almost every house, it was owned first by a family. It wasn't owned by a bank.
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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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I was a fat child I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.
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At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.
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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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There is nothing scarier than being ‘the designer of the moment,’ because the moment ends.
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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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