Hubert de Givenchy Quotes
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I haven't really got a green thumb, but I love gardens and their architecture.
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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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It is important to work. It is important for my mind.
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Balenciaga taught me everything I know. He taught me to care for the details, that it was not necessary to sew on a button where it had no use or to add a flower to make a dress beautiful... no unnecessary detail.
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When you see the best of the best - when you see a Matisse or a Picasso - what interests you is the creativity and harmony.
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When you are a designer, what's important is to be aware of things. Everything should lead to an idea, a line to follow, a movement.
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I think all beautiful women have a clean look. They like things that are simple.
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Mine is one of the most beautiful professions in fashion: making others happy with an idea... I am happy because I did the job I dreamt of as a child.
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To be a couture designer is not only to create dresses but to adapt your line to your private customers. It is why couture is expensive. You are like a doctor.
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It's a fabulous thing to give life to fabric, to make something move well, the harmony of colour.
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It's the most beautiful job in the world to give happiness to people.
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You work around a body and adapt the clothes to your own customer, and this is the interesting part. This is why the haute couture exists: because in ready-to-wear, you have not too much fitting.
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When I am designing, I keep in mind more the American woman than the French woman.
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It gives you a good feeling. Each year, you rediscover in a garden the magic of life. A flower arrives, and it is a miracle. The leaves fall in the autumn, and it looks fantastic. There is a tenderness about a garden, and you can't help but be sensitive to that.
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I had this creativity always with this will for perfection, and I always said to myself, 'Look for what's best.' 'That's your goal, your driving principle.'
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I didn't do any designs for 'My Fair Lady.'
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In the early '50s, it was still the time of Christian Dior's New Look. Every dress was big and important, and I thought I must do something completely different. Women needed something for daytime that was wearable.
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As time passes, we like to simplify our lives.
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I really love to work like a machine.
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My mother was a beautiful lady, elegant, chic, and that was the biggest inspiration to me.
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A piece of material has a life. You must never upset it if you want the material to speak.
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It was always my dream to be a dress designer, and my mother accepted that decision.
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Always I remember when I am young, I ask my mother, 'I really want to be a dress designer.' In that time, was quite difficult because, you know, my family always criticize me for it not to be a man's job.
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You have to know when to stop - that's wisdom.