{"id":9141,"date":"2011-01-17T14:07:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T21:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=9141"},"modified":"2021-09-30T12:07:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T19:07:13","slug":"featured-hubert-de-givenchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-hubert-de-givenchy\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED: HUBERT DE GIVENCHY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"first3words\">Count Hubert de Givenchy is a French aristocrat and fashion designer, and arguably one of the most successful couturiers of all time.<\/span> He found his start with Balenciaga, and later as a assistant designer to Schiaparelli and in 1952 founded The House of Givenchy at the age of 24. Givenchy is\u00a0 the original couturier to the stars of Hollywood, designing much of the personal and professional wardrobe of Audrey Hepburn.<a href=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Givenchy1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatR size-medium wp-image-9142 alignleft\" title=\"Givenchy#1\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Givenchy1-285x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Givenchy1-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Givenchy1.jpg 571w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Description:<\/strong> Hard bound with dust jacket. <span class=\"first3words\">SIGNED BY HUBERT DE GIVENCHY <\/span>on the half title page! 208 pages. Profusely illustrated in full color. The house of Givenchy was founded in 1952 by designer Hubert de Givenchy. His style was marked by innovativeness, contrary to the more conservative designs by Dior. Audrey Hepburn, later the most prominent proponent of Givenchy&#8217;s fashion. Grace Kelly, Marlene Dietrich, The Duchess of Windsor, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis were other famous customers of Givenchy&#8217;s. Boldly signed on the half title page. A very nice copy, bright and clean.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bookseller Inventory #<\/strong> 23040<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sold\">SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Givenchy Style <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Mohrt, Francoise<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Vendome Press<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> 1998<br \/>\n<strong>Binding: <\/strong>Hard Bound<br \/>\n<strong>Book Condition:<\/strong> Very Good<br \/>\n<strong>Dust Jacket Condition:<\/strong> Very Good<br \/>\n<strong>Edition<\/strong>: First U. S. Edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Count Hubert de Givenchy is a French aristocrat and fashion designer, and arguably one of the most successful couturiers of all time. He found his start with Balenciaga, and later as a assistant designer to Schiaparelli and in 1952 founded The House of Givenchy at the age of 24. Givenchy is\u00a0 the original couturier to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9141"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15058,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9141\/revisions\/15058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}