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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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All the young people in fashion worship the people who have been around a long time. I think it is about keeping something going through the generations. Take my work: Just because I'm not 20 anymore doesn't mean that people don't appreciate what I do.
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I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn't about winning or losing. It's about process, keeping it going.
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For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.
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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 am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.
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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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I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.
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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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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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I was a fat child I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.
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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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I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.
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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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In fashion, we have a reputation for being such a façade, fake people, but none of the fashion people who I know are fake.
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We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.
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Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend.
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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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I feel more and more that the most beautiful people are the ones who are comfortable with themselves.
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All I want to do is make people beautiful.
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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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