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Fashion is not about before, it’s not about after, it’s about now

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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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Everybody's talking about the new democratic world and whether high fashion is relevant. But without high there is no low. I don't like to intellectualize. 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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Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.
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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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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 love and respect women. I work mostly with women.
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I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.
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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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I wanted to see people from different age groups, body shapes and personalities wearing Lanvin That is what Lanvin is all about and represents - we dont only do clothes for 20-year-old girls. I love to see mature women wearing Lanvin as well. I love wrinkles, I love grey hair.
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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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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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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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A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films a writer just needs to write three great books.
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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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I was a fat child I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.
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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 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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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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I spend my time backstage at the Lanvin shows, and when I come out at the end, all I see are people's eyes.
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Fashion is about having a fantasy.
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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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