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There is nothing scarier than being ‘the designer of the moment,’ because the moment ends.

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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Anfa
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Moment
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Many, many times I find that whatever is looking good on the screen doesn't always look or feel good on the body. So who do we design for - do we design for the screen, or do we design for women?
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Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.
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I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.
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Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend.
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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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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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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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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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Fashion is like a fruit, you couldn't eat it a day before and you can't eat it a day after it's just about today
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How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street it does generate buzz.
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I think 'modesty' is a beautiful word today - and a beautiful attitude.
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I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.
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I don't want to see a dress with a woman. I just want to see a woman, with a beautiful dress.
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I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.
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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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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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If you change a woman's look, you change her persona.
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In fashion we're lucky, we make dreams come true.
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I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.
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Making them feel gorgeous and comfortable is my way of making women's lives easier.
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