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I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.

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 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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After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’
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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 love and respect women. I work mostly with women.
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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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Style is the only thing you can't buy. It's not in a shopping bag, a label, or a price tag. It's something reflected from our soul to the outside world. An emotion.
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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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Fashion is not always about what's new, it's also about what's good. And I think if you need to see what's good, you have to be there.
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For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.
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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 feel more and more that the most beautiful people are the ones who are comfortable with themselves.
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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 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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When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.
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Making them feel gorgeous and comfortable is my way of making women's lives easier.
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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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I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.
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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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I don’t take drugs because if I did I’d love them–I’d be a junkie. And because I’m Jewish, I’d probably be a dealer, too.
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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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