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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
Being a part of exhibitions is not a burden; it's another way for an independent label such as mine to reach a larger audience by exposing them to my whole body of work.
Hussein Chalayan
Work
Burden
Mine
Way
Independent
Independent Label
Part
Reach
Another
Another Way
Audience
Exhibitions
Label
Being
Them
Body
Whole
Exposing
Larger
I was drawn to biology and history and, of course, art. And I loved languages. The biggest problem I had is that I wasn't taught about the connections between all these things. I think that would have given life a lot more meaning and it would be a lot more enjoyable.
Hussein Chalayan
Life
Art
History
Problem
Think
Biology
Drawn
Would
Would-Be
About
Given
More
Had
Between
Course
Lot
Taught
Loved
Biggest
Biggest Problem
Meaning
Languages
Connections
Enjoyable
Things
I am an idealist, which can be tiring.
Hussein Chalayan
Idealist
Am
Tiring
Which
If I had to define my philosophy, it would be about exploration, a journey, a story-telling.
Hussein Chalayan
Journey
Philosophy
Define
Would
Would-Be
About
Had
Story-Telling
Exploration
I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.
Irving Harper
Money
Lost
Sold
Would
More
Never
Had
Pieces
Any
Just
Wanted
Then
Sculptures
Either it works or it doesn't.
Isaac Mizrahi
Either
Works
This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.
Isaac Mizrahi
You
Design
See
About
Like
Until
Get
Being
Really
Designer
When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.
Isaac Mizrahi
You
People
Say
Some
Like
Always
Yes
Children
Ask
Everyone asks, Will he make it, will she make it? You never make it.
Isaac Mizrahi
You
Will
Everyone
Never
He
She
Make
Ask
How do I do it? I don't know how I wouldn't do it - that's the thing.
Isaac Mizrahi
Know
How
Thing
I'm so involved in melancholy.
Isaac Mizrahi
Melancholy
Involved
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