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I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.

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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When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.
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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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I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.
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I love and respect women. I work mostly with women.
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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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If it’s not edible, it’s not food. If it’s not wearable, it’s not fashion.
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I created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich.
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Making them feel gorgeous and comfortable is my way of making women's lives easier.
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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 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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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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I like first class, but I don't like first class people - I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants, but prefer the taste of McDonalds. I like to be perfect, but I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection. I know, I am a walking contradiction.
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All I want to do is make people beautiful.
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Run away from laziness work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.
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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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What I love in fashion is to tell a story through a creation.
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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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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 love to travel inside my head, take journeys toward the unknown, meet new people, dream.
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