Alaïa, Azzedine

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Alaïa, Azzedine
Date of birth
1935-02-26
Date of death
2017-11-18
Associated country
France
Field of activity
Fashion design
Occupation
Fashion designers
Associated Language
fre
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 77123608
Wikidata: Q2553832
Library of congress: no 98106238
Sources of Information
  • Baudot, 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)