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We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.

Alber Elbaz

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Alber Elbaz
Age: 59 †
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
Died: 2021
Died: April 24
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I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.
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I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my 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 love to travel inside my head, take journeys toward the unknown, meet new people, dream.
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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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What is beautiful for you may not be beautiful to someone else. Or whatever is beautiful here may not be beautiful there and what is sometimes beautiful today is not necessarily beautiful tomorrow. Perhaps this is the story of fashion and what makes it move forward, the fact that there is no decision whatsoever with what’s wrong.
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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 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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What I love in fashion is to tell a story through a creation.
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I think that because I'm overweight, [my] fantasy was lightness. So I project my fantasy to the clothes, and now all I do is light, light clothes because it's the one thing I don't have. That is why I'm too afraid to lose weight because then I might make heavy clothes.
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Fashion is not about before, it’s not about after, it’s about now
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Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.
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When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.
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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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I'm not going into the cool club. It's not my address.
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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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I'd rather be relevant than cool.
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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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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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