The Givenchy style
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The Givenchy style
The Vendome Press , Thames and Hudson , Assouline, 1998
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
Hubert de Givenchy's style is a magnificent alchemy of background, friends, travels around the world, visits to museums, and most important, his collections of paintings, furniture and decorative arts. This book, created in close collaboration with the renowned designer to the rich and famous, explores the sources of inspiration of an artist who created a look that was the very essence of Paris chic. Filled with the fragile beauty of Audrey Hepburn and the frivolity of the Duchess of Windsor, the book visits Givenchy's magnificent Parisian townhouse, the enchanting seaside villa in Cap Ferrat and the glorious salons and gardens of his chateau near Paris. It follows Givenchy to his office, his atelier and his fittings, while personal albums and previously unpublished pictures illustrate how a very private life has influenced the way the whole world looks and dresses.
Table of Contents
- Paris: beginnings as a fashion designer, working for Jacques Fath, Robert Piguet and Schiaparelli
- opens his own salon in 1952
- designer to Audrey Hepburn
- his hotel particulier in Paris's ultra-chic rue de Grenelle
- the art collection - Diego Giacometti, fine French furniture, modern masters, from Matisse to Miro. Le Jonchet: Givenchy's magnificent chateau south of Paris
- the gardens at Le Jonchet
- restoration of Louis XIV's "Potager du Roy" at Versailles. Cap Ferrat: an idyllic spot for one of the finest villas on the French Riviera
- gardens Mediterranean style
- summer fashion, summer inspiration.
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