Audrey Hepburn wishes Givenchy Haute Couture “Lady Jane Grey” Autumn/Winter 1999 Alexander McQueen Available @lilyetcie DM or Email for details McQueen entered Givenchy as a fresh-faced emerging British designer, but left with new skills from the ateliers’ petit mains, with capital, and with an internationally renowned name. The Givenchy 1999 A/H Haute Couture show incorporated highly stylized plastic mannequins appearing from the floor. Was it a metaphor for the astonishing pieces of great beauty made with traditional and irreplaceable hand skills in the ways of classic Haute Couture, contrasting the spectacular clothing McQueen designed that was both modern and classical and infinitely more desirable than the archaic best of late of Hubert de Givenchy who made clothes for rich old ladies. McQueen turned Givenchy upside down. He saved a sinking ship. . . that did not “really seem to know where it’s going.” McQueen’s virtuoso works with precise cuts and his hybrid universe produced grandiose fashion shows and timeless museum quality fashion. @givenchy @alexandermcqueen @anastassiakhozissova @stevenmeisel_ @vogueitalia @mcqueen_vault @sarabandefoundation @julia_guillon #alexandermcqueenarchive #givenchyhautecouture #mcqueenarchive #leemcqueen #leealexandermcqueen #mymcqueenarchive #90srunway #ritawatnick #lilyetcie