Hubert de Givenchy Quotes

French - Designer | February 20, 1927 - March 10, 2018

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.

Hubert de Givenchy

LifeFlowerGoodHelpMagicYear

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

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YourselfEleganceYouBornPossible

As time passes, we like to simplify our lives.

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TimeTime PassesSimplifyLikeOur

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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DoctorYouCreateAdaptWhyDresses

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

Hubert de Givenchy

LifeHarmonyFabulousColourWell

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

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LifeBookPageKnowTurnLike

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

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LifeRespectYouExtraordinaryMust

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

LoveGoodDancePeopleEnergyYou

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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GreatArchitectureIntelligenceYou

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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WomenBeautifulTimeArtWoman

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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FlowerBeautifulDressMeDetail

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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