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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. "

Hubert de Givenchy

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

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" You never finish learning. "

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

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

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" If you want to express yourself, it is difficult to be by yourself. You must have people around you who understand the same music. It is like being the chef d'orchestra. They need you, but you need them desperately. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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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" It's a fabulous thing to give life to fabric, to make something move well, the harmony of colour. "

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" I really love to work like a machine. "

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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 dreamed of fashion as a little boy. "

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" American and Italian women stimulate designers to do new things. "

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