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Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend.

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Alber Elbaz
Age: 59 †
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
Died: 2021
Died: April 24
Entrepreneur
Fashion Designer
Personal Stylist
Anfa
Short
Much
Cooler
Flats
Pretend
Wear

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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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Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.
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I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.
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After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’
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I work on fittings, mostly. You know, I sketch less and less in my work. I sketch for the show sometimes, but then it becomes more conceptual. But when I don't sketch, it becomes more pragmatic.
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I think that because I'm overweight, [my] fantasy was lightness. So I project my fantasy to the clothes, and now all I do is light, light clothes because it's the one thing I don't have. That is why I'm too afraid to lose weight because then I might make heavy clothes.
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What I love in fashion is to tell a story through a creation.
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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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I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.
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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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I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.
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