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

Hubert de Givenchy

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

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" I really love to work like a machine. "

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

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" As time passes, we like to simplify our lives. "

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" I am of tradition, but that doesn't mean I have an old outlook on life. "

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" Life is like a book: one has to know when to turn the page. "

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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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" Fashion should evolve slowly, without any revolution. "

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" It's the most beautiful job in the world to give happiness to people. "

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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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" American and Italian women stimulate designers to do new things. "

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

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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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" You never finish learning. "

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" When I am designing, I keep in mind more the American woman than the French woman. "

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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 didn't do any designs for 'My Fair Lady.' "

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" I haven't really got a green thumb, but I love gardens and their architecture. "

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" I dreamed of fashion as a little boy. "

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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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" To have lived your dream is very rare in life. I am a very happy man. I have been so fortunate. "

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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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" 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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