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

Hubert de Givenchy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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" I dreamed of fashion as a little boy. "

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

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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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" Fashion should evolve slowly, without any revolution. "

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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. "

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

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

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

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

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