” To intern at Dior”, that is the official reason why the young Azzedine Benalaïa, student at the School of Fine Arts ” l’École des beaux-arts”, decided to leave Tunis, the town where he was born, in 1956. He was 21 years old at the time. It would not be until the 13th of October 1979 that the french press, by the pen of Michel Cressole, would write the first article about him : “Azzedine Alaïa and Serge Lutens, the two lone wolves”.

What happened between the date of his arrival in Paris and him setting up his maison in rue de Bellechasse and showing his first collection of ready-to-wear in 1982 ?

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