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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. "

Hubert de Givenchy

You

Creation

Energy

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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. "

" You never finish learning. "

" 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. "

" Encouragement helps you to go one step more, become better. "

" I think when you sell your company and are no longer the master of driving it, it's quite difficult. "

" When you see the best of the best - when you see a Matisse or a Picasso - what interests you is the creativity and harmony. "

" 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. "

" I dreamed of fashion as a little boy. "

" Of course everyone dreams of living in the 17th or the 18th century because of the costumes, but there were so many incommodities. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To change just because of change, that is not my idea at all. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Balenciaga was my religion. Since I'm a believer, for me, there's Balenciaga, and the good Lord. "

" You have to know when to stop - that's wisdom. "

" If fashion is good, it has no epoch. "

" As a student, I was more gifted in history and geography. Things like arithmetic were not my strength. "

" Fabric is the most extraordinary thing; it has life. You must respect the fabric. "

" 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. "

" It was always my dream to be a dress designer, and my mother accepted that decision. "

" Clients become very attached to the fitter who they feel understands them. "

" You must, if it's possible, be born with a kind of elegance. It's part of you, of yourself. "

" My mother was a beautiful lady, elegant, chic, and that was the biggest inspiration to me. "