AZZEDINE ALAÏA, 1935–2017
AZZEDINE was the true meaning of ‘original’. We should all aspire to live life as purely as he did and to be as focused on and devoted to our work as he was to his. ... Like a true artist, he followed his instinct and simply did what he loved.”
It was BAZAAR global fashion director Carine Roitfeld who summed up what a lot of us were thinking as the fashion world learnt of Azzedine Alaïa’s passing in Paris on November 18. He was 82.
Alaïa was a god; a small god at barely five feet tall, but a god nonetheless. His influence on fashion was massive; so much so that its reverberations could be felt even at the recent round of international collections. Who could fail to see the master couturier’s handwriting within Jacquemus’s voluminous white shirting and body-skimming dresses held up with a sliver of shoestring, or his sexually charged dynamic within Jonathan Anderson’s asymmetric ruffles, corkscrew pattern-cutting and panels of exposed flesh at Loewe?
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