VOGUE ON: Hubert de Givenchy

Drusilla Beyfus

Abrams, New York, USA

Year 2013

Pages 211

The fashion aesthetic of handsome, aristocratic Hubert de Givenchy combined the traditions of haute couture – creative, luxurious, and perfectionist – with a modern entrepreneurial sensibility. In a career spanning 40 years, he created the most glamorous of evening dresses, developed the influential “sack” dress, and produced debonair daytime suits that have never gone out of fashion. He also famously defined the sartorial image of Audrey Hepburn – both onscreen and off – designing the little black dress for “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”. This book features biography and history studded with more than 80 images taken by leading photographers such as Irving Penn, Patrick Demarchelier, and Cecil Beaton.