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Alaïa, Azzedine

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Personal name headingAlaïa, Azzedine
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Associated countryFrance
Birth date1935-02-26
Death date2017-11-18
Place of birthTunis (Tunisia)
Place of deathParis (France)
Field of activityFashion design
Profession or occupationFashion designers
Found inBaudot, F. Alaïa, 1997: p. 5 (Azzedine Alaïa; fashion designer) p. 74 (b. in Tunisia; moved to Paris in 1957)
New York times WWW site, viewed Nov. 20, 2017 (in obituary published Nov. 18: Azzedine Alaïa; b. Feb. 26, 1935 (though some biographical sources list his birth year as 1939 or 1940), Tunis; went to Paris to work for Dior, in 1957; opened his own maison in 1979; d. Saturday [Nov. 18, 2017], Paris, aged 82; one of the greatest and most uncompromising designers of the 20th and 21st centuries)
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