Hubert de Givenchy Quotes
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I don't think I am avant-garde. I made a lot of creations and created harmony with my fabrics, but I was not like Balenciaga, for example, although he was, of course, a great inspiration.
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I love to dance, and I love to see people dance. It is good exercise. It gives you a kind of energy.
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Each of my garments is something special in itself. You give all your energy to each piece, to each creation, and I have no favourite. I love all of them equally.
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Fashion should evolve slowly, without any revolution.
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I dreamed of fashion as a little boy.
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Like in great painting and architecture, in couture, to make clothes you must eliminate, eliminate, eliminate to obtain the true sense of a line. You see, the more you add, the more you load on, the more it's mad. You must try to have just the silhouette, which is an intelligence in clothes.
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Clients become very attached to the fitter who they feel understands them.
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Encouragement helps you to go one step more, become better.
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Life is like a book: one has to know when to turn the page.
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If I had to start over, I'll do the same thing: street clothes are the future; the client can choose two or three things and combine them as she wants.
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People say I am a classic designer. I don't try to be classic, but I do try to be simple and elegant.
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To change just because of change, that is not my idea at all.
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Balenciaga was my religion. Since I'm a believer, for me, there's Balenciaga, and the good Lord.
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My grandmother had a cupboard where she kept her collections and textile samples of all sorts of things. When I had good grades, I could take out one piece of work to look at.
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I had the fortune to evolve at a time when fashion was very important, and women dressed themselves very well. A woman who dressed very well also had a husband who would have beautiful collections of art and decorative objects.
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If fashion is good, it has no epoch.
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Of course everyone dreams of living in the 17th or the 18th century because of the costumes, but there were so many incommodities.
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Fabric is the most extraordinary thing; it has life. You must respect the fabric.
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I've stopped making frocks, but not making discoveries.
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American and Italian women stimulate designers to do new things.
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As a student, I was more gifted in history and geography. Things like arithmetic were not my strength.
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I'd love to wear the big pant, like I see on the street, or the blouson, but I'd look ridiculous. I'm not that shape. You must respect yourself.
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I think when you sell your company and are no longer the master of driving it, it's quite difficult.
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To have lived your dream is very rare in life. I am a very happy man. I have been so fortunate.