Givenchy, Hubert de, 1927-2018

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Name (Latin)
Givenchy, Hubert de, 1927-2018
Other forms of name
De Givenchy, Hubert, 1927-2018
Givenchy, Hubert de, 1927-
Date of birth
1927-02-21
Date of death
2018-03-10
Occupation
Fashion designers
Associated Language
fre
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 95710143
Wikidata: Q167318
Library of congress: n 87147046
Sources of Information
  • Alberto Pinto, 2016:title page (Hubert de Givenchy) page 4 of jacket (Hubert de Givenchy is a celebrated fashion designer who founded his eponymous harte couture house in 1952)
  • Encyc. Brit.(Givenchy, Hubert de, b. Feb. 21, 1927)
  • LC data base, 2/9/89(usage: Hubert de Givenchy)
  • Wikipedia, March 13, 2018(died March 10, 2018)
  • Wikipedia, May 10, 2017(Hubert de Givenchy; Count Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy (born 21 February 1927 in Beauvais, France) is a French fashion designer who founded The House of Givenchy in 1952; he is famous for having designed much of the personal and professional wardrobe of Audrey Hepburn, as well as clothing for clients such as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy; he was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1970; he was the younger son of Lucien Taffin de Givenchy (1888-1930), marquis of Givenchy, and his wife, the former Béatrice ("Sissi") Badin (1888-1976); he retired from fashion design in 1995; he resides at the Château du Jonchet, a listed historic castle in Romilly-sur-Aigre, Eure-et-Loir, near Paris and focuses on collecting 17th and 18th-century bronze and marble sculptures)
  • nuc87-124241: His Givenchy, 30 years, 1982(hdg. on GASU rept.: Givenchy, 1927- )