Gardens as metaphors. Signposts and signals for lives lived, friendships nurtured, seasons passed. From the walled ‘rooms’ of Sissinghurst to the orchards of Monk’s House and Hubert de Givenchy’s Clos Fiorentina, Clare Waight Keller considers gardens as a tapestry of time and circumstance – a timeless reprise for the Givenchy Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2020 collection.
An innate ability to interpret tradition with spontaneity is the key to new elegance. Self-expression is paramount, permitting moments of unbridled opulence and psychedelia within the everyday. Clare Waight Keller liberates the Givenchy Men’s Fall/Winter 2020 collection with an intimate ode to the modern man. Clare Waight Keller said she was inspired by the recent
Givenchy Artistic Director Clare Waight Keller continues to draw from the 90s for the house’s latest campaign photographed and directed by Steven Meisel. The famous photographer lensed models Alpha Dia, Veronika Kunz, Karolin Wolter and Henry Kitcher who were styled by Suzanne Koller. The campaign, entitled ‘’I Am Your Mirror’’, reflects a sense of daring
Clare Waight Keller described the theme of her collection Fall/Winter 2019 for Givenchy as ‘’the winter of Eden’’, and as ‘’the origin myth – the temptation of Adam and Eve intertwined, touched by a polished sense of individuality’’, said the show notes. The notes helped to explain the contrasting looks that came down the runway:
For Fall/Winter 2019, Givenchy presented a standalone collection that showcases its new vision of a complete, day to evening wardrobe brimming with contrast, eclectic pairings and a nod to the maverick individualism of the Nineties. Recast in a modernized way, the mood of the era comes through in a series of color-blocked suits; embellished pieces
The lower galleries of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris provided the setting for the Spring/Summer 2019 haute couture collection by Clare Waight Keller for Givenchy. Titled ‘’Bleached Canvas’’, the collection embodied the Artistic Director’s philosophy of modern couture, broadening the distinctive Givenchy signature with an of-the-moment aesthetic. Clare sent models with
Clare Waight Keller’s used to built her collections from compelling and little-known characters like the motorbiking French adventurer Anne-France Dautheville or this season, at Givenchy, from Annemarie Schwarzenbach, a Swiss writer in the 30’s who bucked gender norms from an early age, dressing like a boy, dressing like a girl as she pleased without much
Clare Waight Keller takes to the club with her Fall/Winter 2018 campaign for Givenchy. Shot by Steven Meisel and appropriately titled, “Night Noir” the ads consist of black-and-white images of dancing models and couples caught in a moment. It’s a cool underground scene that’s a nod to Berlin in the mid-’80s, though technically it could
After the death of Hubert de Givenchy in March at the age of 91, Clare Waight Keller thought it appropriate to make her Fall/Winter 2108 Haute Couture collection an homage to the founder. ‘’I am deeply saddened by the loss of a great man and artist I have had the honor to meet and get
