Word: hubert
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Audrey, Jackie and Grace are gone, but a crowd of HUBERT DE GIVENCHY'S peers, including Yves Saint Laurent, Valentino and Christian Lacroix came out to pay homage to the 68-year-old designer as he presented his last haute-couture collection ever. He departed with class, as he arrived, playing classical music and sharing his standing ovation with his entire atelier. Givenchy hands the bodkin of his eponymous house over to 34-year-old English designer JOHN GALLIANO, not such a classical-music kind of guy. Recently, Givenchy's relationship with his backers has been strained, but the couturier...
There has always been an intimacy between powerful editors and their favorite powerful designers: legendary Vogue editor in chief Diana Vreeland with Hubert de Givenchy and Halston, the quid with the quo. But the magazine recession of the early 1990s, which intensified the scramble for ad pages everywhere, made the cozy relationships even cozier. During that period, design companies amassed even more advertising clout. The economic pressure has eased lately-for instance, ad pages through May are up 16% for Elle and 9% for Glamour over last year. Still, the compromises remain...
...reigning couturier, Cristobal Balenciaga, but the great man turned her away. The rejected muse then turned to another, younger designer, and it was rare affection at first sight. Eventually she called him her greatest friend, almost like a psychiatrist. He referred to her as a sister. Audrey Hepburn and Hubert de Givenchy...
While guiding the Civil Right Act through the Senate, Sen. Hubert Humphrey explicitly assured senators that the bill "does not require an employer to achieve any kind of racial balance in his work force by giving preferential treatment to any individual or group." In a memo to the Senate, the floor managers of the bill assured their colleagues that "any deliberate attempt to maintain a racial balance, whatever such a balance may be, would involve a violation of Title VII [of the Act] because maintaining such a balance would require an employer to hire or to refuse to hire...
Nelson has been on the faculty of the University of Minnesota since 1983, where she has taught political science, women's studies, social work and American studies. Since 1989, Nelson has been a professor at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs...