Maison 14 of 100 · Fashion & Couture
Givenchy
The reading
Hubert de Givenchy dressed Hepburn; the modern house dresses a broader, louder customer. Creative rotation has been costly. Antigona still pays bills. The question is whether Givenchy is a couture name or a leather-goods name that happens to show clothes.
The house
- Origin
- France
- Founded
- 1952
- Atelier
- Fashion & Couture
- Ownership
- LVMH
- Signature
- Antigona
- Register note
- LVMH fashion maison This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
The register, counted around it
France puts twenty-six maisons into this register, the largest national group, and this is one of them. It is one of twenty-one LVMH houses in this register: Louis Vuitton, Dior, Celine, Fendi, Loewe, Loro Piana, and fourteen more. Fashion & Couture holds twenty-five houses here, and this is the 14th of them. Against the whole register by founding year it comes 62nd of a hundred. Three houses in this register date from the 1950s, and it is one. Fashion & Couture holds twenty-five of the hundred places, the largest room in the register.