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After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’

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Alber Elbaz
Age: 59 †
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
Died: 2021
Died: April 24
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I was a fat child I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.
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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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I love and respect women. I work mostly with women.
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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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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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Fashion is not about before, it’s not about after, it’s about now
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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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Fashion is not always about what's new, it's also about what's good. And I think if you need to see what's good, you have to be there.
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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 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'd rather be relevant than cool.
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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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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 am very much a people person.
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Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend.
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All I want to do is make people beautiful.
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Run away from laziness work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.
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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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I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.
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