Givenchy

 France He was, indeed, looking back at his own and fashion's past, citing the elegance of Audrey Hepburn (with a reference to his stint as designer at Givenchy) and Dior's houndstooth checks. There were so many of those checks — even mixed with McQueen's ...

 France And this ready-to-wear show proved that the designer could embrace Parisian chic but make it his own. At Givenchy, Riccardo Tisci still seems to believe that he has a lot to prove. Just at the moment when he might have distilled his dark, ...

 France Marco Gobbetti was transferred from Givenchy to Celine, where he is expected to rev up that brand with the designer Phoebe Philo. Fabrizio Malverdi of John Galliano was hired to fill Gobbetti's Givenchy shoes. And Pierre Denis was traded from Dior to ...

 France Since then, high fashion has swallowed dozens of burgeoning talents - most famously John Galliano, firstly at Givenchy and ultimately at Dior. But also Alexander McQueen, also first at Givenchy (owned by LVMH) and then at the corporate rival PPR, ...

It began with Giorgio Armani's "Rock Symphony" and ended at midnight Wednesday with a barefoot Courtney Love in a Givenchy couture gown belting out "Samantha" until even the wrought iron banisters of the august Paris fashion house were shaking.