As, The French Haute Couture Federation announced Alaia’s death, fashion and entertainment celebrities from around the world, mourned the death of Tunisian-born designer Azzedine Alaia.
The Tunisian-born Alaia was dubbed as the “king of cling” for the form-fitting designs he popularized during the 1980s, He believed that fashion was more than just garments, but rather an element in the empowerment of women.
Alaia had dressed famous women, Naomi Campbell being his favorite model, from Hollywood to Michele Obama at White House.Known as a fashion rebel, he was based in Paris for decades but did not take part in the French capital’s seasonal fashion frenzy or flashy ad campaigns. Instead, he showed privately on his own schedule.
Rather than bending to the conventional fashion scene, Alaia built his own system, and family of supporters, and since the turn of the millennium he had become an increasingly important voice for the value of striving to perfect and explore a single proprietary esthetic and against giving in to the relentless pressure to produce collections.
His kitchen, where he was famous for holding free-flowing lunch and dinner gatherings, for which he often cooked, was his soapbox, and he would regale guests long into the night with opinion, stories and exhortations. (article courtesy; Associated Press)
