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Hubert de Givenchy

French fashion designer
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Born:
February 20, 1927, Beauvais, France
Died:
March 10, 2018, near Paris, France (aged 91)
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Givenchy
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Hubert de Givenchy (born February 20, 1927, Beauvais, France—died March 10, 2018, near Paris, France) was a French fashion designer noted for his couture and ready-to-wear designs, especially those he created for the actress Audrey Hepburn. Givenchy studied art at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and later studied law. At 17 he was apprenticed to the Parisian designer Jacques Fath, but he did not remain with Fath for long; during the next eight years he designed for the major Parisian fashion houses of Robert Piguet, Lucien Lelong, and Elsa Schiaparelli, in turn. In 1952 he opened his own house ...(100 of 236 words)

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