His career began with an introduction to designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel by composer Cole Porter.
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Fulco left Chanel in 1934 to venture to the United States with Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg and Princess Natalia Pavlovna Paley.
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That year, he met Linda and Cole Porter – two of his biggest supporters and early backers – in Palermo.
Givenchy has been compared in the press to jewelry designers Fulco di Verdura (1898-1978) and Jean Schlumberger (1907-1987) since he is also a European jeweler established in America.
Headley got his start in 1930, as an apprentice to popular jeweler Paul Flato, who is considered the first celebrity jeweler, where he worked alongside Count Fulco di Verdura.