15 Facts About Hubert Givenchy

1.

Hubert Givenchy was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1970.

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2.

Hubert James Taffin de Givenchy was born on 20 February 1927 in Beauvais, Oise into a Protestant family.

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3.

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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4.

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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5.

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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6.

Hubert Givenchy moved to Paris at the age of 17, and he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

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7.

Hubert Givenchy's style was marked by innovation, contrary to the more conservative designs by Dior.

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8.

Hubert Givenchy went on to design the black dress she wore in Breakfast at Tiffany's.

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9.

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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10.

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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11.

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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12.

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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13.

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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14.

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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15.

Hubert de Givenchy died in his sleep at the Renaissance chateau near Paris on Saturday 10 March 2018.

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