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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You must, if it's possible, be born with a kind of elegance. It's part of you, of yourself.
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It is important to work. It is important for my mind.
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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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I think all beautiful women have a clean look. They like things that are simple.
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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 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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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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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 I am designing, I keep in mind more the American woman than the French woman.
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My mother was a beautiful lady, elegant, chic, and that was the biggest inspiration to me.
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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 really love to work like a machine.
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It's the most beautiful job in the world to give happiness to people.
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You have to know when to stop - that's wisdom.
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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 was always my dream to be a dress designer, and my mother accepted that decision.
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I didn't do any designs for 'My Fair Lady.'
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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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If you want to express yourself, it is difficult to be by yourself. You must have people around you who understand the same music. It is like being the chef d'orchestra. They need you, but you need them desperately.
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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 never finish learning.
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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.