French fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy has died at 91. When told he had the opportunity to costume Hepburn, Mr. Givenchy was under the impression it was a different famous Hepburn — Katharine Hepburn. “We never had a contract, like other designers do,” Mr. Givenchy told the Chicago Tribune in 1989. The two shared weekly phone calls, Mr. Givenchy told the Financial Times, until her death in 2014 at 103. In 1988, Mr. Givenchy sold his design label to the French luxury goods conglomerate LVMH for $46 million.

Source: Washington Post March 12, 2018 13:57 UTC