Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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.' "
Hubert de Givenchy
Creativity
Perfection
Best
Related Quotes:
" 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. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Flower
Life
Fall
" Encouragement helps you to go one step more, become better. "
Hubert de Givenchy
You
Become
Better
" The little black dress is the hardest thing to realize because you must keep it simple. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Black
Dress
Keep
" 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. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Good
Grades
Her
" A piece of material has a life. You must never upset it if you want the material to speak. "
Hubert de Givenchy
You
Want
Upset
" People say I am a classic designer. I don't try to be classic, but I do try to be simple and elegant. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Try
Simple
Classic
" I've stopped making frocks, but not making discoveries. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Discoveries
Stopped
Making
" Of course everyone dreams of living in the 17th or the 18th century because of the costumes, but there were so many incommodities. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Many
Dreams
Living
" I love to dance, and I love to see people dance. It is good exercise. It gives you a kind of energy. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Good
Energy
Love
" 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. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Movement
Follow
Line
" It's the most beautiful job in the world to give happiness to people. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Happiness
World
People
" 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
" 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. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Street
Two
Clothes
" It's a fabulous thing to give life to fabric, to make something move well, the harmony of colour. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Move
Colour
Fabulous
" 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. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Care
Dress
Flower
" As a student, I was more gifted in history and geography. Things like arithmetic were not my strength. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Student
Geography
History
" As time passes, we like to simplify our lives. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Time
Time Passes
Like
" 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. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Adapt
Why
Doctor
" 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. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Look
Thought
Time
" 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. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Inspiration
Great
Harmony
" American and Italian women stimulate designers to do new things. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Things
New
American
" I dreamed of fashion as a little boy. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Little
Fashion
Dreamed
" I haven't really got a green thumb, but I love gardens and their architecture. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Green
Architecture
Got
" You have to know when to stop - that's wisdom. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Know
Wisdom
You
" 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. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Clothes
Interesting
Work
" 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. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Time
Art
Woman
" It is important to work. It is important for my mind. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Work
Important
Mind
" I think all beautiful women have a clean look. They like things that are simple. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Think
Simple
Look
" Fashion should evolve slowly, without any revolution. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Without
Fashion
Revolution
" 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. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Family
Mother
I Am