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Hubert de Givenchy knew from the time that he was a young boy that he was meant to design women s fashions. And design he did: From dressing the likes of Bettina Graziani, Lauren Bacall, Elizabeth Taylor, Deeda Blair, Greta Garbo, and Rachel Lambert Mellon (he designed her evening dresses
and gardening clothes, while she designed his gardens), and of course most famously his longtime collaboration with Audrey Hepburn, Givenchy burst onto the French couture scene at the age of 24, wowing the press and retailers alike with his distinct eye and his elegant attitude towards separates, and continued to command attention until his last show in 1995.
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As a child, I was captivated by a painting that hung in my aunt’s house in Oxfordshire. I had never met my grandfather and was therefore particularly fascinated by this portrait of him as a young man in Cape Town, painted by his brother. It is extraordinarily atmospheric. Of course, I didn’t appreciate then that the chair he sat in was rattan, but now I wonder if those hours spent gazing at Grandpa might have subliminally instilled in me a love of wicker furniture. A little far-fetched maybe, but I am not sure how else I can explain why, in my late teens, I developed such a devotion to rattan.I first became aware of furniture made of plant fiber while in Egypt, and saw not only the extraordinary pieces with which Tutankhamen was buried but also the ubiquitous café chairs and tables made from the date palm. Around the same time, I started buying old pieces of rattan furniture, cluttering up my long-suffering parents’ house and stables with old daybeds, chairs, tables,
The White House’s Origins
Before we explore the White House’s most prominent interiors, let’s explore the famed home’s history.
The White House was designed by Irish architect James Hoban in the Neoclassical style of architecture and built over the course of eight years (from 1792 to 1800). The edifice itself is made of Aquia Creek sandstone that was painted white because of the risk posed by the permeability of the stone, which could cause cracking in colder months.
Before the current White House, the President’s House in Philadelphia served as a home to two presidents: George Washington and John Adams. The construction of the White House was completed just a few months before Adams’s presidency ended, so he was able to move into the People’s House before his term concluded.
Some of Jackie O.’s Favorite Fabrics Are Back on the Market
In the late 1960s, D.D. and Leslie Tillett worked with designers in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, on some historically significant prints. Now the project is being reintroduced to a new generation.
Kathleen Tillett and her son, Patrick McBride, outside of their factory in Sheffield, Mass.Credit.Shana Sureck for The New York Times
By Jaci Conry
Published Dec. 28, 2020Updated Jan. 22, 2021
Update: Jan. 22, 2021. After this article’s initial publication, two sons of D.D. and Leslie Tillett, Seth Tillett and Dek Tillett, objected to some of the descriptions of their parents’ work and its legacy, and raised doubts about the history of the textiles being reissued. The article has been updated to include additional context supplied by them.