Hubert De Givenchy Quotes

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.

- Hubert de Givenchy

Dress, Necessary, Add, Sew

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.

- Hubert de Givenchy

Mad, Line, Eliminate, Silhouette

Of course everyone dreams of living in the 17th or the 18th century because of the costumes, but there were so many incommodities.

- Hubert de Givenchy

Dreams, Living, Everyone, 18th Century

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

Magic, Year, About, Flower

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.

- Hubert de Givenchy

Good, Grades, Had, Textile

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.

- Hubert de Givenchy

Harmony, Think, Like, Avant-Garde

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.'

- Hubert de Givenchy

Goal, Always, Principle, Perfection

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.

- Hubert de Givenchy

Art, Fortune, Very, Decorative

Each of my garments is something special in itself. You give all your energy to each piece, to each creation, and I have no favourite. I love all of them equally.

- Hubert de Givenchy

Love, Give, Equally, Something Special

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

- Hubert de Givenchy

Strength, Student, Gifted, Arithmetic

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

- Hubert de Givenchy

Me, Believer, Lord, Good Lord

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.

- Hubert de Givenchy

Start, Over, Same Thing, Client

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

- Hubert de Givenchy

Woman, Mind, More, French

To have lived your dream is very rare in life. I am a very happy man. I have been so fortunate.

- Hubert de Givenchy

Happy, Been, Very, Happy Man

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

- Hubert de Givenchy

Lady, Fair, Any, Designs

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

- Hubert de Givenchy

I Am, Mean, Old, Outlook

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

- Hubert de Givenchy

Making, Stopped, Discoveries

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

Love, Exercise, Kind, Energy

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

- Hubert de Givenchy

Better, Go, More, Encouragement

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.

- Hubert de Givenchy

Line, Like, Private, Customers

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

- Hubert de Givenchy

Clients, Very, Attached, Understands

When you see the best of the best - when you see a Matisse or a Picasso - what interests you is the creativity and harmony.

- Hubert de Givenchy

Best, Harmony, See, Picasso

Fashion should evolve slowly, without any revolution.

- Hubert de Givenchy

Evolve, Should, Any, Slowly

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

- Hubert de Givenchy

Harmony, Give, Move, Fabulous

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.

- Hubert de Givenchy

Work, Adapt, Own, Customer

As time passes, we like to simplify our lives.

- Hubert de Givenchy

Like, Passes, Lives, Simplify

I dreamed of fashion as a little boy.

- Hubert de Givenchy

Boy, Little, Dreamed, Fashion

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.

- Hubert de Givenchy

Dress, New, Big, Daytime

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

- Hubert de Givenchy

Think, Sell, I Think, Master

If fashion is good, it has no epoch.

- Hubert de Givenchy

Good, Fashion, Epoch

I really love to work like a machine.

- Hubert de Givenchy

Love, Work, Like, Machine

You never finish learning.

- Hubert de Givenchy

Learning, Never, You, Finish

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.

- Hubert de Givenchy

Want, Need, Like, Chef

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

- Hubert de Givenchy

Simple, Dress, Black, Hardest Thing

Mine is one of the most beautiful professions in fashion: making others happy with an idea... I am happy because I did the job I dreamt of as a child.

- Hubert de Givenchy

I Am Happy, Making, Mine, Professions

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

- Hubert de Givenchy

Beautiful, Mother, Biggest, Chic

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

- Hubert de Givenchy

Think, Like, I Think, Beautiful Women

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.

- Hubert de Givenchy

Dress, Young, I Remember, Criticize

American and Italian women stimulate designers to do new things.

- Hubert de Givenchy

New Things, New, Designers, Italian

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

- Hubert de Givenchy

Kind, Born, Part, Elegance

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

- Hubert de Givenchy

Book, Know, Like, Page

It was always my dream to be a dress designer, and my mother accepted that decision.

- Hubert de Givenchy

Mother, Dress, Always, Designer

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

Follow, Line, Idea, Designer

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

- Hubert de Givenchy

I Am, Classic, Say, Designer

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

- Hubert de Givenchy

Love, Green, I Love, Gardens

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.

- Hubert de Givenchy

Love, Big, Shape, Street

A piece of material has a life. You must never upset it if you want the material to speak.

- Hubert de Givenchy

Never, Upset, Material, Piece

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

- Hubert de Givenchy

Extraordinary, Most, Must, Fabric

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

- Hubert de Givenchy

Change, Because, Idea, Just Because

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

- Hubert de Givenchy

Beautiful, Give, Most, Most Beautiful

You have to know when to stop - that's wisdom.

- Hubert de Givenchy

Know, You, Stop, Wisdom

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