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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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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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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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Run away from laziness work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.
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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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Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.
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Fashion doesn't look good only on models, it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.
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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 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 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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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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I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, inventing. The day I cease to learn, I must stop.
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In fashion we're lucky, we make dreams come true.
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If I wasn't a designer I would love to be a doctor. That is my fantasy, my dream. A doctor will give you a tablet if you have a headache and I will give you a dress and we both make you feel good.
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I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn't about winning or losing. It's about process, keeping it going.
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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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Fashion is instinctive and sensual. Learn to love what you wear. It should feel like eating chocolates...wi thout the calories
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I do sport at the gym a few times a week, but I hate it. Work is my only remedy. I feel so twisted and horrible in the morning, but then I go to the office and I start feeling better. Work is my Tylenol. Extra-strength.
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I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.
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Fashion is not about before, it’s not about after, it’s about now
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