Azzedine Alaia is a Tunisian-born couturier and shoe designer, particularly successful since the 1980s. Alaia was born in Jemmal, Tunisia on 7 June 1940. His parents were wheat farmers but his glamorous twin sister inspired his love for couture. A French friend of his mother fed Alaia's instinctive creativity with copies of Vogue. He lied about his age to get himself into the local Ecole des Beaux- Arts in Tunis and began studying sculpture where he gained valuable insights into the human form. After his graduation, Alaia began working as a dressmaker's assistant. He soon began dressing private clients, and in 1957 he moved to Paris to work in fashion design. In Paris, he started to work at Christian Dior as a tailleur, but soon moved to work for Guy Laroche for two seasons, then for Thierry Mugler until he opened his first atelier in his little rue de Bellechase apartment the late 1970s. It is in this tiny atelier that for almost 20 years he dressed privately the world's jet set, from Marie-Helene de Rothschild to Louise de Vilmorin (who would become a close friend) to Greta Garbo, who used to come incognito for her fittings.

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