Alber Elbaz

Alber Elbaz (Hebrew: אלבר אלבז‎; born 1961) is a Moroccan-Israeli fashion designer. Elbaz worked for the Paris fashion house Lanvin from 2001 until October 2015. 2Biography Alber Elbaz was born in 1961 in Casablanca, Morocco. He immigrated to Israel with his family at the age of 10 and grew up in Holon. After serving in the Israeli Defense Forces, he studied at the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Ramat Gan. His life partner is Alex Koo, Lanvin's director of marketing. 2Fashion Career Elbaz began designing for Lanvin in 2001. In October 2015, he announced that he had been let go from the fashion house since he disagreed with the company's major shareholder, Shaw-Lan Wang. Elbaz also complained about the lack of strategy and targeted investement of the company. He designed all of the costumes Natalie Portman wore in the film A Tale of Love and Darkness which she also wrote and directe