Alber Elbaz
| Alber Elbaz | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1961 (age 55–56) Casablanca, Morocco |
| Residence | Holon, Israel |
| Nationality | Moroccan/ Israeli |
| Occupation | fashion designer |
| Partner(s) | Alex Koo |
| Awards | International Award, Council of Fashion Designers of America (2005) |
| Labels |
Lanvin (2001－2015) |
Alber Elbaz (Hebrew: אלבר אלבז; born 1961) is a Moroccan-Israeli fashion designer. Elbaz worked for the Paris fashion house Lanvin from 2001 until October 2015.
Alber Elbaz was born in 1961 in Casablanca, Morocco. He immigrated to Israel with his family at the age of 10 and grew up in Holon. After serving in the Israeli Defense Forces, he studied at the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Ramat Gan. His life partner is Alex Koo, Lanvin's director of marketing.
Elbaz began designing for Lanvin in 2001. In October 2015 he announced that he had been let go from the fashion house.
He designed all of the costumes Natalie Portman wore in the film A Tale of Love and Darkness which she also wrote and directed.
In 2006, Elbaz introduced new packaging for Lanvin, featuring a light forget-me-not blue color, a favorite shade which Lanvin purportedly had seen in a Fra Angelico fresco. Packaging included shopping bags imprinted with Paul Iribe's 1907 illustration of Lanvin and her daughter Marguerite, and shoe boxes designed like antique library files, tied with black ribbons to emphasize the precious nature of the product.
Elbaz illustrated the song "Lady Jane" in singer-songwriter Mika's extended play Songs for Sorrow.
In 2012, Rizzoli published a book of 3,000 photographs documenting Elbaz's work for Lanvin.
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