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I haven't really got a green thumb, but I love gardens and their architecture.
— Hubert de Givenchy
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Hubert de Givenchy
art collector, grand couturier, designer, postage stamp designer, businessperson, dressmaker, fashion designer, costume designer
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1927 – 2018
Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy was a French fashion designer who founded the luxury fashion and perfume house of Givenchy in 1952. He is famous for having designed much of the personal and professional wardrobe of Audrey Hepburn and clothing for Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1970.
All Quotes by Hubert de Givenchy
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It's the most beautiful job in the world to give happiness to people.
— Hubert de Givenchy
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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.
— Hubert de Givenchy
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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.
— Hubert de Givenchy
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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.
— Hubert de Givenchy
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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.
— Hubert de Givenchy