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Azzedine Alaïa (French: [azedin alaja]; Arabic: عز الدين عليّة, romanized: ʿIzz ad-Dīn ʿAlayya, pronounced [ʕizz adˈdiːn ʕaˈlajja]; 26 February 1935 – 18 November 2017) was a Tunisian couturier and shoe designer, particularly successful beginning in the 1980s.
Nov 18, 2017 · Azzedine Alaïa, the iconoclastic couturier, has died in Paris at the age of 82. Alaïa was a legend in the industry. When other designers were asked about their icon, the answer more often than...
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Nov 18, 2017 · Nov. 18, 2017. Azzedine Alaïa, one of the greatest and most uncompromising designers of the 20th and 21st centuries, died on Saturday in Paris. He was 82. His company said the cause was a heart...
At the Foundation. On tour: current. Upcoming. Past. Azzedine Alaïa Gallery. Exhibition 09.27.2023 - 01.21.2024. Azzedine Alaïa, couturier and collector. For many years now, I've been buying and receiving dresses, coats and jackets that reflect the glorious history of fashion.
- He understood the female body. Alaïa moulded his clothes to the female form, designing around the woman’s body. He sculpted his work to a Rodin level of craftsmanship (Alaïa himself trained as a sculptor), never losing shape of how his work would look on a woman – fit and flare shapes and nipped-in waists are key signatures.
- He was the first to reject the traditional show schedule. Alaïa has always beat to the sound of his own drum. Light years before the See Now Buy Now concept was established (in which collections become available immediately after the show), he abandoned the show schedule, refusing to the industry’s expectations and indeed passing trends.
- He was a consummate craftsman. Few designers of Alaïa’s level still cut their own clothing patterns, sew samples and conduct fittings, but the Tunisian designer never stopped using a needle and thread.
- Alaïa dresses are immune to aging. The phrases “timelessness’ and “investment pieces” are bandied around a lot in fashion, but Alaïa’s work is truly deserving of both.
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Nov 20, 2017 · Nov. 20, 2017. The last time I saw Azzedine Alaïa, the Tunisian-French designer who died this past weekend and was possibly the last of the great couturiers, it was midnight on a Wednesday in...
Nov 18, 2017 · Azzedine Alaïa Was the Last Great Craftsman of Fashion. By Hamish Bowles. November 18, 2017. Photographed by Arthur Elgort, Vogue, August 1993. This July, Azzedine announced that he was showing...
