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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.

Alber Elbaz

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Alber Elbaz
Age: 59 †
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
Died: 2021
Died: April 24
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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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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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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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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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The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns of fashion.
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I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.
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There is nothing scarier than being ‘the designer of the moment,’ because the moment ends.
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I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.
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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 am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from the past, people, events.
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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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The whole season thing is nonsense. It's either beautiful or it isn't. That's something I really learned when I started collecting dresses.
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I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.
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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 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 like the dream, like fantasy dresses. Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o’clock at night, it doesn’t matter. I think it is also important for me to make it pragmatic and practical and wearable. I always say, 'If you can’t eat it, it’s not food, and if you can’t wear it, it’s not fashion, it is something else.'
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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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Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.
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With fashion, I barely finish one collection before I must start another.
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