26 February 1935 – 18 November 2017
The painter and film-maker remembers the French-Tunisian fashion designer,his best friend of 35 years
[br]• Ugo Ehiogu remembered by Gareth SouthgateThere is supposed to be a permanence approximately death. Not sure what that means. Azzedine left home, left his atelier a lot of times without his cellphone. It was a way not to be bothered, and to be free during the day,and we all understood and waited for Mr Alaïa to seem. Everyone waited and knew he would be back soon. meanwhile everything that he touched surrounded everyone he came in contact with; surely all those who worked with him, who he cooked for, or who ate with him,his friends and everyone who possessed something that he made, each coveted object, and every shoe,every dress, every piece of clothing that he lovingly turned into art for everyone, or something to accompany all of us so that we would be more beautifully equipped on this journey.
The permanence of death pales next to the permanence of beauty,which transgresses death, never fleeting, and materialising then inhabiting the ether for always.
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Source: guardian.co.uk