Hubert de Givenchy

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A book that can only sharpen your sense of style and elegance – the life and work of Hubert de Givenchy, this great and very discreet couturier, are revealed here while being devoured with an aesthetic pleasure that is anything but exaggerated!

Author: Jean-Noël Liaut

Publishing House: Grasset

Publication Date: March 2000

What is an elegant man? Hubert de Givenchy. A world-renowned couturier, an aesthete who collects houses, an eternal teenager capable of restoring the king’s vegetable garden at Versailles, the current president of Christie’s is considered a classic. But he was not always a classic. Not so long ago this “Giant Baby”, following Jacques Fath, embodied the Parisian spirit, this disciplined dreamer swirled in the café-society, designed chair-dresses for Maxime de La Falaise, and exported a certain idea of women by dressing the elfin Audrey Hepburn in a black sheath in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. From Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat to New York, from Venice to Tokyo, the penniless dandy quickly became a man in a hurry. In this first biography of Hubert de Givenchy, intimate conversations and unpublished memories abound. It is the evocation of a vanished elegance. It is also a round of conversations in which Audrey Hepburn, Hélène Rochas, the Mitford sisters, the Duchess of Windsor, and a few eccentrics salute their friend Givenchy, and through him his timeless conception of the ephemeral.