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Hubert de Givenchy
French
Designer
Born:
Feb 20
,
1927
Died:
Mar 10
,
2018
Beautiful
Fashion
Good
Life
Love
You
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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.
Hubert de Givenchy
Life
Good
You
Garden
Feeling
Year
Fall
Autumn
Flower
Magic
Miracle
About
Gives
Tenderness
Looks
Rediscover
Leaves
Sensitive
Fantastic
Help
Each
Good Feeling
Each Year
As a student, I was more gifted in history and geography. Things like arithmetic were not my strength.
Hubert de Givenchy
Strength
History
Gifted
More
Student
Arithmetic
Like
Geography
Were
Things
You must, if it's possible, be born with a kind of elegance. It's part of you, of yourself.
Hubert de Givenchy
You
Yourself
Possible
Kind
Must
Born
Part
Elegance
It's a fabulous thing to give life to fabric, to make something move well, the harmony of colour.
Hubert de Givenchy
Life
Harmony
Fabric
Fabulous
Give
Something
Colour
Well
Make
Move
Thing
As time passes, we like to simplify our lives.
Hubert de Givenchy
Time
Our
Our Lives
Simplify
Like
Passes
Time Passes
Lives
Life is like a book: one has to know when to turn the page.
Hubert de Givenchy
Life
Book
Like
Know
Turn
Page
I haven't really got a green thumb, but I love gardens and their architecture.
Hubert de Givenchy
Love
Architecture
Thumb
Got
Green
Really
Gardens
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
You
Important
Everything
Follow
Lead
Idea
Line
Movement
Should
Aware
Things
Designer
The little black dress is the hardest thing to realize because you must keep it simple.
Hubert de Givenchy
You
Simple
Black
Must
Dress
Because
The Hardest Thing
Little
Realize
Keep
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
It was always my dream to be a dress designer, and my mother accepted that decision.
Hubert de Givenchy
Mother
Decision
Dream
Dress
Accepted
Always
Designer
I dreamed of fashion as a little boy.
Hubert de Givenchy
Fashion
Dreamed
Boy
Little
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
Beautiful
Art
Time
Fashion
Woman
Women
Husband
Important
Evolve
Collections
Would
Dressed
Objects
Had
Also
Well
Very
Themselves
Decorative
Fortune
Who
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
You
Doctor
Dresses
Only
Like
Couture
Line
Private
Expensive
Customers
Create
Your
Why
Designer
Adapt
You never finish learning.
Hubert de Givenchy
You
Learning
Finish
Never
Clients become very attached to the fitter who they feel understands them.
Hubert de Givenchy
Become
Attached
Feel
Clients
Understands
Fitter
Very
Them
Who
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
Future
Three
Same Thing
Clothes
Had
Combine
Over
She
Client
Same
Wants
Them
Choose
Street
Thing
Things
Start
Two
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
Time
Women
Thought
Important
Big
Christian
Every
Must
Dior
Dress
Something
New
Daytime
Look
Still
Different
Early
Needed
I didn't do any designs for 'My Fair Lady.'
Hubert de Givenchy
Fair
Any
Lady
Designs
I really love to work like a machine.
Hubert de Givenchy
Work
Love
Machine
Like
Really
American and Italian women stimulate designers to do new things.
Hubert de Givenchy
Women
New Things
New
Stimulate
Italian
American
Things
Designers
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
You
Energy
Creation
Favourite
Give
Something
Something Special
Piece
Equally
Itself
Them
Your
Special
Each
Garments
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
You
Creativity
Harmony
See
Picasso
Interests
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
Costumes
Course
Because
Were
Century
Many
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