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 | | Balenciaga, whom Givenchy regards as his master, had suddenly closed his house of couture in 1968, as if to say: "This age is no longer to my liking". |
 | | Hubert de Givenchy, faced with a problem of personal funds, sold his company to the LVMH Group (Dior, Christian Lacroix, Céline, Kenzo) in 1988. |
 | | Hubert de Givenchy is the stuff of legends: his name remains inseparably linked with that of Audrey Hepburn, whose finely elegant body he clothed both on and off the stage for forty years. |
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