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Article: Alaïa, Azzedine
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ALA
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A, Azzedine
French designer
Born:
Tunis, Tunisia, circa 1940.
Education:
Studied sculpture,
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cole des Beaux-Arts, Tunis.
Career:
Dressmaker's assistant, Tunis; dressed private clients before moving to Paris, 1957; part-time design assistant, Guy Laroche, Thierry Mugler, 1957-59; au pair/dress-maker for the Marquise de Mazan, 1957-60, and for Comtesse Nicole de Bl
é
giers, 1960-65; designer, custom clothing, from 1960; introduced ready-to-wear line, Paris, 1980, and New York, 1982; opened boutiques, Beverly Hills, 1983, Paris, 1985, and New York, 1988-92.
Exhibitions:
Retrospective
, Bordeaux Museum of Modern Art, 1984-85;
Retrospective
, New York, 2000.
Awards:
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