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“I promise you I learn something new every day. And I want to try to keep it that way, until the day I die.” -Azzedine Alaïa

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The fashion world recently said goodbye to Azzedine Alaïa, the master of “body con” dresses.

And while most will remember him for his expert tailoring and sculpting of the female silhouette, in the spirit of learning something new every day, we’ve collected five facts you may not have known about the designer behind some of fashion’s sexiest looks.

1.

Azzedine Alaïa was the son of Tunisian farmers.

He dressed the likes of Greta Garbo, Lady Gaga and Michelle Obama, yet Alaïa was born in 1940 in Tunisia to two wheat farmers—and it was his twin sister who taught Azzedine how to sew.

Alaïa was raised by his grandparents and eventually left Tunisia for Paris at the age of 17.

Azzedine worked for Christian Dior then Guy Laroche before making clothes for his