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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. "

Hubert de Givenchy

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" I really love to work like a machine. "

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

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" It is important to work. It is important for my mind. "

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

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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'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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" A piece of material has a life. You must never upset it if you want the material to speak. "

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

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

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

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

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

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" I've stopped making frocks, but not making discoveries. "

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

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

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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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" 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. "

Hubert de Givenchy

" Fashion should evolve slowly, without any revolution. "

Hubert de Givenchy

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

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

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

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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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" 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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