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I don't want to see a dress with a woman. I just want to see a woman, with a beautiful dress.

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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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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Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.
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I'm not going into the cool club. It's not my address.
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After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’
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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 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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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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The problem with couture is not designers it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there.
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I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.
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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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Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend.
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The whole season thing is nonsense. It's either beautiful or it isn't. That's something I really learned when I started collecting dresses.
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Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.
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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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Sometimes you don't really need armor to feel protected. Sometimes maybe you need just a chiffon dress to hug you.
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Making them feel gorgeous and comfortable is my way of making women's lives easier.
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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 sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from the past, people, events.
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I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.
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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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