Hubert De Givenchy has opened a self-titled exhibition at the Calais Museum for Lace and Fashion. The show charts key moments in the couturier’s career, including a range of designs he made for muse Audrey Hepburn and former First Lady Jackie Kennedy.
Seventy outfits are on display, alongside couture textile swatches, archive Givenchy scents and photographs which give insight into his creative universe. Everything in the exhibition, which runs from June 15 to December 31, has been chosen and curated by de Givenchy himself.
Speaking at the opening, The Guardian reports the designer praised his clients: “They were my friends. The perfect dress can make many things happen in a woman’s life. It can bring happiness. It is so nice to give happiness to your friends.”
Remembering his first encounter with Hepburn, he said: “Audrey came into my life in an adorable way. This very thin person [came to me] with beautiful eyes, short hair, thick eyebrows, very tiny trousers, ballerina shoes, and a little T-shirt. On her head was a straw gondolier’s hat with a red ribbon around it.” De Givenchy collaborated on Hepburn’s wardrobe for 1995 film Sabrina and then “every movie after that. It became a great friendship.”
The black satin Givenchy evening dress worn by the actress as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s is on display, alongside a photograph of the pair enjoying each other’s company away from the silver screen.
Remembering his first encounter with Hepburn, he said: “Audrey came into my life in an adorable way. This very thin person [came to me] with beautiful eyes, short hair, thick eyebrows, very tiny trousers, ballerina shoes, and a little T-shirt. On her head was a straw gondolier’s hat with a red ribbon around it.” De Givenchy collaborated on Hepburn’s wardrobe for 1995 film Sabrina and then “every movie after that. It became a great friendship.”
The black satin Givenchy evening dress worn by the actress as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s is on display, alongside a photograph of the pair enjoying each other’s company away from the silver screen.
Touching on his work for Kennedy, de Givenchy said: “I met Jackie before she was First Lady. She was very modern, very elegant, she loved fashion, she loved our clothes, but we had to be discreet.” He “made 10 or 15 pieces for the first presidential trip, but her secretary told me that we could not tell the press”.
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