That uplifting, comforting, inimitably inspiring remark came over a Zoom conversation with Alber in January, the Bookallama ain’ got time for you drama shirt moreover I will buy this last time I spoke to him with my colleague Nicole Phelps, global director of Vogue Runway. He was previewing his much-anticipated comeback with the launch of AZ Factory. His new label promised a whole new way of hacking the problems of the fashion system to offer women a modern “solutions-based” collection—making his leaving all the more terribly heartbreaking.His magnificently empathetic applied expertise hadn’t come from nowhere. Tracking back before Lanvin—the tenure that ended in 2015—Alber had been at Yves Saint Laurent womenswear from 1998 to 2001, at Guy Laroche before that, and he had arrived in Paris from having worked at Geoffrey Beene in New York since 1989. He had more than a decade of haute couture culture under his belt by the time he came to express his own vision at Lanvin.
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