“En ce moment, je regarde Shakira et Beyoncé. Je vais sur YouTube à 2 - 3 heures du matin, je mets Single Ladies de Beyoncé et je fais danser tout le monde. Je monte sur la chaise et je danse pour me doper. Souvent, je ne me couche pas. Alors, je vais me brosser les dents, je me lave la figure, comme si je me réveillais.” - Alaia, on his adorable late night pick-me-up routine, in Vogue Paris Avril 09.

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“I would gather these scrapped photos from the garbage, put them in an envelope, and organize them later at home. I separated the blonde women, the brunettes, the black women, and the men, too, into long hair, short hair, mustaches…” - Azzedine Alaia, on his childhood job at the police station’s photo ID department (we think he must have been a muse for Amelie), in Interview.

So, we’re not the only ones with a major Alaia crush.

Phil, from streetpeeper.com alerted us to a shiny rip-off of one of this season’s most loved heels.

The sexy, swirly, wrapped-around-the-foot Alaia sandal was spotted in almost every front row from New York to Paris, but now it can be yours for a fraction of the original price from Oh Deer! - the shoe company known best for painting the soles of their heels a suspicious shade of signature red.

But, the shoes will still set you back $200, they won’t be worth anything in twenty years, they’re too shiny to wear during the day and you’ll have to walk around knowing that you’re wearing a too-expensive copy of a genius’ original design.

Meanwhile, they ripped off these ones, too. They’re not as exact, but someone in Oh Deer!’s design department’s not feeling particularly creative.

Mark Haddaway and Katy Rodriguez, the brilliant duo behind Resurrection, have been working on a project.

We’re so jealous, we might cry.

They’ve assembed what The Telegraph calls, “the most important [collection] to come up at auction.”

It includes original 1970’s Vivienne Westwood from both the legendary Seditionaries and Pirates collections. There are Paco Rabanne dresses and leather jackets from the 60’s and an entire, unworn look from Yves Saint Laurent’s 1968 Safari collection. There’s a 1986 zippered, hooded, green mini Alai that was in fact worn, but by Grace Jones, a python skin Ossie Clark coat and a few slinky Versace dresses circa Gianni.

Are you emptying your piggy bank yet?

If not, there’s also a group of dresses from Marc’s 1992 Grunge collection for Perry Ellis.

We’re kind of speechless. So in the words of Rachel Zoe, (since she’s probably the only one who can justify shelling out thousands for these pieces right now), “I die. D-I-E.”