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I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.

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'm not going into the cool club. It's not my address.
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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 like the dream, like fantasy dresses. Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o’clock at night, it doesn’t matter. I think it is also important for me to make it pragmatic and practical and wearable. I always say, 'If you can’t eat it, it’s not food, and if you can’t wear it, it’s not fashion, it is something else.'
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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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What I love in fashion is to tell a story through a creation.
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Everyone wants to be young and skinny. This is awful. Curves are marvelous. Wrinkles are hypnotizing. Why not just be happy with who you are?
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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 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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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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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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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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We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.
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I always think, if I were an editor, and I was invited to a show, and I would have to wait for 45 minutes in the dark or in the cold or in the heat, maybe I would like to have a fresh drink or a piece of chocolate.
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Fashion is about having a fantasy.
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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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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 love to travel inside my head, take journeys toward the unknown, meet new people, dream.
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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 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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