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Clare Waight Keller speaks out on Givenchy exit

British fashion designer Clare Waight Keller has called her tenure at Givenchy as artistic director as “three truly wonderful years” in a statement on her personal Instagram page. The news of her departure came as a shock to many, especially as in such a short period, the British designer had elevated the fashion houses’ couture collections as...

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Clare Waight Keller leaves Givenchy

In what comes as a shock to many in the fashion industry, GIvenchy's artistic director Clare Waight Keller is leaving the fashion house after a three year stint at the brand. Waight Keller's contributions to the house include elevating their couture collections and designing the now world famous wedding dress Meghan Markle wore to marry Prince...

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Ariana Grande named new face of Givenchy

Givenchy has teased a new campaign video featuring a silhouette of a woman with a high ponytail, and there's one celebrity known for that trademark above everyone else, Ariana Grande. Givenchy hasn't officially confirmed Grande's appointment yet, but the teaser videos featuring what is very obviously her silhouette are all over their Instagram....

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Clare Waight Keller, Jennifer Hyman & Pierpaolo Piccioli on Time’s 100 most influential people list

Time magazine has featured three fashion professionals on this year’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world. They are Clare Waight Keller, Artistic Director of Givenchy; Jennifer Hyman, Founder and CEO of Rent the Runway; and Pierpaolo Piccioli, Creative Director of Valentino. Appointed in 2017, Keller is Givenchy’s first female...

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Video: AW19 show by Givenchy in Paris

Givenchy Fall Winter 2019/2020 by Clare Waight Keller on the catwalks in Paris. Source: FF Channel, YouTube.

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Video: Meghan Markle - The Duchess of Sussex - British Designer Womenswear Givenchy @ The Fashion Awards

Meghan Markle makes a special appearance at The Fashion Awards to announce the winners. Source: Youtube, Fashion Feed

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The Fashion Awards names 2018 winners

The Duchess of Sussex was the surprise guest at The Fashion Awards 2018, shining a light on British talent globally, to present the designer of her wedding dress, Clare Waight Keller of Givenchy, with the coveted British Womenswear Designer of the Year award. Wearing a black Givenchy gown, the Duchess cradled her pregnancy bump as she appeared...

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Inside the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's wedding exhibition

Displaying Royal wedding gowns to the public is a “long-standing tradition that stretches back centuries,” states Caroline de Guitaut, senior curator at the Royal Collection Trust, and Windsor Castle will be showcasing the Duchess of Sussex’s timeless Givenchy Couture gown for the first time in the castle's Grand Reception Room, where the Queen...

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Givenchy homage on first day of Paris haute couture shows

Clare Waight Keller, the Givenchy stylist who grabbed the global fashion spotlight by designing Meghan Markle's wedding dress, paid homage to the storied house's late founder in her latest haute couture collection. On the first day of Paris couture week, the Givenchy show, held in the gardens of the National Archives in the city's Marais...

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Meghan Markle champions female designers for wedding

Having chosen to wear a haute couture wedding gown designed by Clare Waight Keller for Givenchy for her nuptials to Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, the new Duchess of Sussex, turn to another British fashion designer, Stella McCartney to design her second wedding dress for the evening celebrations. Like Waight Keller, a British designer who is the...

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Meghan Markle chooses Clare Waight Keller for Givenchy for wedding gown

After months of speculation over who Meghan Markle would choose to design her wedding to Prince Harry, the American actress, who became Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Sussex, stepped out of a vintage Rolls-Royce in a minimal Givenchy Haute Couture wedding dress by British designer Clare Waight Keller. Many designers had been tipped to design...

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Designer Waight Keller wows with Givenchy couture debut

British designer Clare Waight Keller made a flawless Paris haute couture debut at Givenchy, with critics swooning over her moonlit sonata in black and white. The 47-year-old creator, who quit Chloe in March, had never before tackled a haute couture collection -- the handmade pinnacle of the fashion pyramid. But she made both a daring and...