Givenchy Quotes

• You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.

  Alexander McQueen

  Mistake, Twenties, Fifty

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My obsession when I was kid, from '85 into the '90s, was Gianni Versace. It was Helmut Lang. It was Margiela. So I said, "I cannot have Givenchy only as a luxury house; I'm going to introduce products for everybody, things that are reachable."

  Riccardo Tisci

  Kids, Luxury, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I like about houses like Givenchy. It's easy to pull from. With Givenchy you can accessorize to build anything, any look.

  Erykah Badu

  House, Looks, Easy

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• Look, if Givenchy is going to lend you a dress, I'm not going to turn it down. I would wear that dress to just go out and buy a pint of milk if they would lend it to me.

  Florence Welch

  Dresses, Looks, Milk

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• I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Jobs, Years, Interviews

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• In the beginning, I was very punk. I was very revolutionary. When they asked me to do Givenchy, I didn't want to do it. My friends pushed me. But the situation with my family was so bad financially. I really did it because, when they told me how much they would pay me, I saw that my sisters and my mom could have a better life.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Mom, Want, Pay

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Do you think there'd be a Givenchy in the hood if it wasn't for that South Park photo?

  Kanye West

  Thinking, Parks, Hood

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• At the beginning, I didn't see what Givenchy could give my career. It was like, "Okay, I'll do it for the money for a few years to help my mom and my sisters."

  Riccardo Tisci

  Mom, Years, Careers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was sitting at home one day and I got a call that Riccardo Tisci was considering me for the face of the Givenchy Spring/Summer 2014 campaign, and I said, "Are you kidding?" and that was the end of the conversation. I'm a really big fan.

  Erykah Badu

  Summer, Spring, Home

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• Don't say you don't know! It's because of Kim. Meaning there's no photo that I would have put up by myself, or next to one of my smarty friends, that would have got that amount of likes. So now you take this photo that has that amount of likes, and it has a flower wall from the same guy who does the Lanvin shows, and it has a couture Givenchy dress and Givenchy tuxedo in it. That's the point. Now the thing that is the most popular is also communicating the highest level of creativity. The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

  Kanye West

  Wall, Flower, Writing

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• I have this fancy Givenchy bag. I don't know what the Kardashians have in their bags - I bet they have really expensive products or six cellphones or something. I have a cellphone and some lipstick for me, and the rest is just filled with stuff for the kids - sunscreen and lip balm and little Ziploc bags of pretzels and cheese sticks.

  Julie Bowen

  Kids, Bags, Littles

  "Julie Bowen: Fellow Mom Reese Witherspoon 'Saved My Life'". Interview with Alissa Schulman, www.usmagazine.com. August 9, 2016.

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• Couture was only for rich people. Givenchy was for rich people. A bag cost 5,000 euro; a coat cost 10,000 euro. In the beginning, I couldn't react. I was just working like a machine, because I wanted to make the house happy.

  Riccardo Tisci

  People, House, Bags

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This is why I decided to work with Nike, too, because it is even more mass-market than Givenchy and could make entry-price shoes and make people dream to be part of the journey.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Nike, Dream, Journey

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchys sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, The Artist is Present, in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress.

  Joan Smalls

  Beautiful, Art, Museums

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• I'm into all types of stuff. I might have on Pumas one day, Givenchy the next. I'd wear this John Elliott sweat suit to the club.

  Meek Mill

  Sweat, One Day, Clubs

  "The GQ+A: Meek Mill on Kendrick Lamar, Twitter Hashtags, and Being Rich Forever". Interview with Nate Erickson, www.gq.com. December 20, 2013.

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• Each time I'm in a film, Givenchy dresses me.

  Hubert de Givenchy

  Dresses, Film

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• I've been working with Riccardo Tisci from Givenchy.It's been a long collaboration, and I don't think it's going to stop now. It's very important to me. Riccardo is younger than me, so it's great to have someone new teaching you in everything, not just in fashion. I'm teaching him in French style, what a women's style is, but he's teaching me in all of these different styles of music.I love this new world for me. It's refreshing and nourishing to keep learning about new things.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Teaching, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• At LVMH, we have amazing heritage brands, and we put interesting talents in those brands, sometimes very young, like we did at Givenchy with Riccardo Tisci at the time, or like we just did with J.W. Anderson at Loewe, but also talents that are already further along in their careers, like Raf Simons at Christian Dior or Nicolas at Vuitton.

  Delphine Arnault

  Christian, Careers, Interesting

  "Delphine Arnault Rising". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. April 14, 2014.

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• I can never tell what I'm gonna wear. I kind of just put on whatever feels right. Sometimes that's Converse and a T-shirt, sometimes it's Givenchy heels and leather pants.

  Willow Smith

  Leather Pants, Kind, Sometimes

  "Willow Smith shows off wild side in Karl Lagerfeld photo shoot, but says she just wants to 'chill'" by Rebecca Pocklington, www.mirror.co.uk. January 14, 2014.

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• I was also very lucky to be able to work with talented people while I was learning. I didn't actually go to fashion school. I worked with Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy which was a really pivotal experience for me. He taught me a lot about being faithful to your own voice and to really believe in your own voice and that's made a big difference.

  Joseph Altuzarra

  Fashion, Believe, School

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.

  Natalia Vodianova

  White, Fake, Saint

  "How I get dressed" by Natalia Vodianova, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2008.

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