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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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Alber Elbaz
Age: 59 †
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
Died: 2021
Died: April 24
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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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Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don't have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I've tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it.
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Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o'clock at night - it doesn't matter.
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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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If I wasn't a designer I would love to be a doctor. That is my fantasy, my dream. A doctor will give you a tablet if you have a headache and I will give you a dress and we both make you feel good.
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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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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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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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I love women. I get along with women more than men, and I have more women friends.
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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 created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich.
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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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Fashion is not about before, it’s not about after, it’s about now
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Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.
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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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All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me.
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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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Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend.
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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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Sometimes you don't really need armor to feel protected. Sometimes maybe you need just a chiffon dress to hug you.
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