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

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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" You must, if it's possible, be born with a kind of elegance. It's part of you, of yourself. "

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

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" People say I am a classic designer. I don't try to be classic, but I do try to be simple and elegant. "

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" You never finish learning. "

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" 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.' "

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" 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. "

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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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" The little black dress is the hardest thing to realize because you must keep it simple. "

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" I think all beautiful women have a clean look. They like things that are simple. "

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

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" I really love to work like a machine. "

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

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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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 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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" 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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