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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.

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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Fashion

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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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Run away from laziness work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.
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I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.
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In fashion we're lucky, we make dreams come true.
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We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.
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I know amazing people in fashion who are anything but fake. They are very real and very sensitive. They are happy and sad. They are loyal friends.
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There is nothing scarier than being ‘the designer of the moment,’ because the moment ends.
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I was a fat child I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.
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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 don't want to see a dress with a woman. I just want to see a woman, with a beautiful dress.
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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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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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A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.
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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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If you change a woman's look, you change her persona.
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Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?
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