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Sarah Burton Catherine Middleton in a white wedding gown and veil holds a bouquet as her sister Pippa Middleton, in a fitted white dress, carries the train outside Westminster Abbey.
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Sarah Burton English fashion designer Sarah Burton, 2014.

Sarah Burton

English fashion designer
Also known as: Sarah Jane Heard
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Sarah Burton (born 1974, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England) is an English fashion designer who was creative director for the Alexander McQueen label (2010–23) and later for Givenchy (2024– ). Heard studied art at Manchester Polytechnic before attending London’s Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design. While still in school, she became an intern (1996) at the fashion studio of McQueen, a British designer known for his groundbreaking clothes, shocking catwalk shows, and precise tailoring. When...

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