Hubert Givenchy was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1970.
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15 Facts About Hubert Givenchy
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Hubert James Taffin de Givenchy was born on 20 February 1927 in Beauvais, Oise into a Protestant family.
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Hubert Givenchy was the younger son of Lucien Taffin de Givenchy, Marquis of Givenchy, and his wife, the former Beatrice Badin .
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Hubert Givenchy had an elder brother, Jean-Claude de Givenchy, who inherited the family's marquessate and eventually became the president of Parfums Givenchy.
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Hubert Givenchy's maternal great-grandfather, Jules Dieterle, was a set designer who created designs for the Beauvais factory, including a set of 13 designs for the Elysee Palace.
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Hubert Givenchy moved to Paris at the age of 17, and he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
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Hubert Givenchy's style was marked by innovation, contrary to the more conservative designs by Dior.
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Hubert Givenchy went on to design the black dress she wore in Breakfast at Tiffany's.
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Hubert Givenchy sought inspiration not only from the lofty settings of haute couture but in such avant-garde environments as Limbo, the store in Manhattan's East Village.
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Hubert Givenchy debuted his pret-a-porter collection in 1954, at which time his designs were considered to be both comfortably wearable and well-shaped enough to have "hanger appeal".
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Hubert Givenchy created the iconic 'Balloon coat' and the 'Baby Doll' dress in 1958, making innovative contributions to the geometric seaming and experimental construction becoming prevalent at the time.
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Hubert Givenchy even joined other cocktail-set designers in showing the occasional above-the-knee skirt, newly acceptable to him now that it was dressy-looking instead of 1960s-casual, a tendency that increased during the eighties.
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House of Hubert Givenchy was split in 1981; the perfume line went to Veuve Clicquot, and the fashion branch was acquired by LVMH in 1989.
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Hubert Givenchy resided at the Chateau du Jonchet, a listed historic castle in Romilly-sur-Aigre, Eure-et-Loir, near Paris.
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Hubert de Givenchy died in his sleep at the Renaissance chateau near Paris on Saturday 10 March 2018.
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