The French fashion designer of Azzedine Alaya, the founder of the fashion house Azzedine Alaїa, died at the age of 77. On this on Saturday, November 18, reports Le Point. Alaya was born in Tunisia in 1939, moved to Paris in the 1950s and entered the School of Fine Arts for a sculpture course, but preferred fashion. Azzedin became an assistant in the house of Christian Dior, but was fired after a few days. Then he worked for two years in the house of Guy Laroche, collaborated with Thierry Mugler and hewed wealthy private clients. Alayas first presented his own collections in the late 1960s, and founded his own fashion house in the 1980s.

Until 1992, Alaya represented the collection in Paris, but from 1992 he ceased to participate in the Fashion Week and began to conduct his own irregular defile. In 2011, Azeddin Alaya refused to lead the house of Dior after the dismissal of John Galliano. Among the star clients of Azzedine Alaїa were Tina Turner, Madonna, Janet Jackson and Bridget Nielsen. Supermodels Naomi Campbell, Iman, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Iman and others appeared on the catwalk at the shows of his collections..

Original article: Franco-Tunisian fashion designer Azzedine Alaya died.