Hubert de Givenchy

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

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

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

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

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

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