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Givenchy, Hubert de, 1927-2018

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Personal name headingGivenchy, Hubert de, 1927-2018
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Variant(s)Givenchy, Hubert de, 1927-
De Givenchy, Hubert, 1927-2018
LocatedEure-et-Loir (France)
Birth date1927-02-21
Death date2018-03-10
Place of birthBeauvais (France)
Profession or occupationFashion designers
Found innuc87-124241: His Givenchy, 30 years, 1982 (hdg. on GASU rept.: Givenchy, 1927- )
LC data base, 2/9/89 (usage: Hubert de Givenchy)
Encyc. Brit. (Givenchy, Hubert de, b. Feb. 21, 1927)
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)
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)
Wikipedia, March 13, 2018 (died March 10, 2018)
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