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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.

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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If it’s not edible, it’s not food. If it’s not wearable, it’s not fashion.
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What I love in fashion is to tell a story through a creation.
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The big room or big suite doesn't mean a lot to me. It is what the people do or don't do that matters.
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What is beautiful for you may not be beautiful to someone else. Or whatever is beautiful here may not be beautiful there and what is sometimes beautiful today is not necessarily beautiful tomorrow. Perhaps this is the story of fashion and what makes it move forward, the fact that there is no decision whatsoever with what’s wrong.
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If you take something out of the freezer, it's cold, but what happens when it melts? It's a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I'm more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility.
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I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.
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If you change a woman's look, you change her persona.
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After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’
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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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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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I love and respect women. I work mostly with women.
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I'm not going into the cool club. It's not my address.
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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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All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me.
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Fashion is not always about what's new, it's also about what's good. And I think if you need to see what's good, you have to be there.
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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 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 love women. I get along with women more than men, and I have more women friends.
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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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I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.
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