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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.

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 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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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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Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?
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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 think 'modesty' is a beautiful word today - and a beautiful attitude.
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Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend.
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At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.
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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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With fashion, I barely finish one collection before I must start another.
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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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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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Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.
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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 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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Run away from laziness work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.
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