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8 unusual facts about Givenchy


Alix Bancourt

Some of Alix Bancourt's favourite fashion designers are Balenciaga, Givenchy, Marni, Miu Miu, and Lanvin (clothing).

Battle of La Bassée

De Maud'huy also moved up his units to Givenchy and taking over the line enabling 5th Division to free three battalions for a reserve.

Julien Fournié

After experience at Nina Ricci, he moved to Christian Dior, where he worked on accessories with Jean Mouclier, then at Givenchy haute couture.

Katerina Jebb

Givenchy, Paris, “Unidentified N°35”, video projection and large scale human photocopy (2007)

Lincoln Continental Mark V

Designer Editions included Bill Blass, Cartier, Givenchy, and Pucci, each featuring a unique option package and exterior and interior colors.

Quim Gutiérrez

Quim was chosen by Givenchy Creative Director Riccardo Tisci to star in the brands Autumn/Winter 2013 Advertising Campaign

Simone Nobili

For Fall/Winter 2012/2013 season, Nobili stars in advertising campaign for Givenchy, Givenchy Eyewear, Just Cavalli, Just Cavalli Eyewear, System, and Moschino Underwear.

Tatiana Lyadockrina

Lyadockrina began her modeling career with New York Model Management in 2005 and was featured on the covers of Canadian Nylon magazine in August of the same year and then participated in both Anna Molinari show in Milan which was in September and Parisian Fashion Week in October where she posed in Chanel, Christian Dior, Givenchy, and Lanvin clothes as well as posing with Suzanne Diaz for Italian language Glamour.


16th Punjab Regiment

The regiment suffered heavy losses at the Battles of Neuve Chapelle, Festubert, Givenchy and the Second Ypres.

Alana Zimmer

Zimmer has also been in several Haute Couture shows, that include such designers as Chanel, Givenchy, Valentino Christian Dior and Giorgio Armani.

Battle of Givenchy

With the French under heavy pressure at Arras the order was given that the British force would provide relief by attacking the Germans around Givenchy, thus preventing German reinforcement of Arras from that quarter.

Battle of Passchendaele

The area was considered by the British to be drier than Loos, Givenchy and Plugstreet Wood further south.

Bengal Engineer Group

World War I: La Bassée 1914, Festubert 1914 '15, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Loos, France and Flanders 1914–15, Megiddo, Sharon, Damascus, Palestine 1918, Aden, Kut al Amara 1915 '17, Ctesiphon, Defence of Kut al Amara, Tigris 1916, Baghdad, Khan Baghdadi, Sharqat, Mesopotamia 1915–18, Persia 1918, North West Frontier India 1915 '16–17, Baluchistan 1918;

Black Givenchy dress of Audrey Hepburn

In 1961, Givenchy designed a little black dress for the opening scene of Blake Edwards' romantic comedy, Breakfast at Tiffany's, where Hepburn plays a leading role alongside actor George Peppard.

In November 2006, Natalie Portman appeared on the cover of Harper's Bazaar, wearing one of the original Givenchy dresses created for Breakfast at Tiffany's.

BP Studio

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, BP Studio produced knits for Pucci, Gucci, Ferragamo, Givenchy, Proenza Schouler and The Row (couture label by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen).

Chandra North

Since then, she has been featured in advertisements for Alberta Ferretti, Versace, Saks Fifth Avenue, Givenchy, J.Crew, Valentino, Chanel, and Banana Republic.

James de Givenchy

Born and raised in France, Givenchy grew up in Beauvais, a small town in the suburbs of Paris where the Parfums Givenchy has its factory and where his Father, Jean Claude Taffin de Givenchy (1925–2009) and his uncle, Hubert James Marcel Taffin De Givenchy, the famous fashion designer (b. 1927), were born.

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.

Jen Dawson

Dawson was discovered in Sheffield by London agency Bookings and subsequently worked for photographers Steven Meisel and David LaChapelle (she was the front cover model for his controversial celebrity book "Hotel LaChapelle"), and for top fashion houses Givenchy and Marc Jacobs.

Kamila Filipcikova

She has modeled in fashion shows for designers such as Marc Jacobs, Chanel, Givenchy, Dolce & Gabbana, and Sonia Rykiel.

Kenneth Paul Block

Block’s incisive yet graceful brushstrokes captured the most important styles of the post-war era, including collections by Norman Norell, Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Cardin, Coco Chanel, James Galanos, Givenchy, Pauline Trigère, Bill Blass, Halston, and Geoffrey Beene.

Lignereuil

An double avenue of lime trees, planted in 1850, over a mile (2 km) long, from the chateau to that of Givenchy-le-Noble.

Magdalena Wróbel

Wróbel has worked for fashion designers and cosmetics companies such as Bill Blass, Christian Lacroix, Comme des Garçons, Givenchy, Christian Dior, Guy Laroche, Marithé François Girbaud, Valentino and others.

Nissan Laurel

November 1982 saw the introduction of the Limited "Givenchy Version" with Hubert de Givenchy doing the TV commercials in Japan.

Parfums Givenchy

Les Parfums Givenchy were associated with a purported meeting of Hubert de Givenchy and Audrey Hepburn.


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