Remembering Alber Elbaz

12 June 1961 – 24 April 2021

Elbaz was assistant designer of Geoffrey Beene then moved to Paris in 1996 to become the head of prêt-à-porter design at Guy Laroche. Two years later, Yves Saint Laurent chose Mr. Elbaz to take over.

Linda Evangelista as "The Duchess" photographed by Steven Meisel and clothes by Balanciaga. In 2001, Elbaz was quoted to say about Balenciaga “awake the sleeping beauty”. Elbaz experimented with dresses made from a single seam and clothes that managed to be both generous and elegant, classicism and modernism.