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" 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
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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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