00:21As a Dean was helping couturiers, more couturiers and tourists, and he was dreaming about going
00:27to Paris, and a client knew the Christian Dior Maison, and he found the stage, an internship
00:34for As a Dean to go to the art.
00:36So As a Dean left Tunisia to go straight to Avenue Montaigne, which was for him a big emotional
00:43shock.
00:43He was so impressed by the atelier and the whole atmosphere that he decided that he would
00:50become himself a couturier and not a designer.
00:54And in fact, all his life, as a Dean said, I'm not a designer, I'm a couturier, and it
00:59was for him the biggest achievement in his life.
01:12Well, I think in many ways, Christian Dior in 1947, when he did the famous bar collection,
01:20you know, the new look collection.
01:22He broke the rules.
01:24He made an act of freedom.
01:26He changed the silhouette of the woman.
01:28And As a Dean did this very, very strongly and very much in the 80s, you know, giving
01:35a new shape to the human body, making like body conscious, but comfortable.
01:42Because, you know, between Dior and As a Dean, they are 30 years different.
01:47So the social life changed and the way women were living changed.
01:52Women were working in the 80s when As a Dean became famous.
01:56So for him, the main point was to make women beautiful, feminine, and powerful, but comfortable.
02:03For him, it was always a very big point.
02:11I don't know, there's something so poetic about those clothes next to each other.
02:15Even if they are different.
02:18And the colors or the lace or the pleats.
02:23Yeah, there are lots of things they talk to each other.
02:26But mainly I think it's something you get into a realm of like you're dreaming to be there.
02:31That the clothes are like, they stand by themselves, they are very, they talk to you in a strange way.
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