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Hubert de Givenchy Audrey Hepburn poses in a black cocktail dress, wide-brimmed hat with veil, long gloves, and heels, holding a parasol in a promotional portrait for Breakfast at Tiffany's.
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Hubert de Givenchy Hubert de Givenchy in Paris, 1988.

Hubert de Givenchy

French fashion designer
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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...

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