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

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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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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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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 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 feel more and more that the most beautiful people are the ones who are comfortable with themselves.
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How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street it does generate buzz.
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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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Fashion is like a fruit, you couldn't eat it a day before and you can't eat it a day after it's just about today
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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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I created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich.
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I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.
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All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me.
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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 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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If it’s not edible, it’s not food. If it’s not wearable, it’s not fashion.
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I'm not going into the cool club. It's not my address.
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I have a problem to do a collection that is a secondary line. I mean, you don’t want to be the stepsister. You want to be Cinderella. Show me one girl who wants to be the stepsister.
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Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.
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I'd rather be relevant than cool.
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