Azzedine Alaia
Elsa Schiaparelli
April 24, 2020Balenciaga
April 24, 2020
Azzedine Alaïa was born in 1940 and raised in Tunisia, and moved to Paris in 1957 to kick-start his fashion career. He started in Paris as a dressmaker’s assistant, working at prestigious houses such as Christian Dior, Guy Laroche, and Thierry Mugler for 20 years.
After starting his own ready-to-wear collection in 1980, his collections quickly became a hit, and he gained recognition for his seductive and clingy shapes which emphasized structure and purity of form.
Despite his death in 2017, he is still regarded in the fashion world as a true visionary. Loved by many women around the world, he is revered for his independence and his passion for discreet luxury, and admired for his refusal to give into the fickle marketing strategies of today’s fashion.
