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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.

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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Elegant
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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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To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.
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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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If it’s not edible, it’s not food. If it’s not wearable, it’s not fashion.
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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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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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Making them feel gorgeous and comfortable is my way of making women's lives easier.
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All I want to do is make people beautiful.
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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 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 like having the freedom to dress as I desire.
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When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.
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My dream is to be a doctor. I'm almost working in a laboratory, because I'm trying new techniques, new directions and fabrics, new weaving.
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When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the end of the year, I gave her the sketchbook. For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams.
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I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.
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I was a fat child I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.
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Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o'clock at night - it doesn't matter.
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Fashion is about having a fantasy.
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I love women. I get along with women more than men, and I have more women friends.
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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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