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HUBERT DE GIVENCHY
A typescript letter, signed, from Hubert de Givenchy to Audrey Hepburn on 52 Rue des Saints-Peres, Paris headed stationery, dated 10 June, 1982, the one page letter written in French, addressed in black ink Mon Audrey, thanking her for her speech at the gala opening of Givenchy – 30 Years at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, 10 May, 1982, Givenchy tells her that he has just seen the film of the presentation, in which she arrived so beautifully in a black sheath, and how everything she said touched him deeply ...mon emotion etait immense, going on to remember the moment she asked him to be there for her children, should anything happen, he assures Audrey that she can always count on him, Givenchy ends by repeating his affection and tendresse, and signs Tres fort, Hubert, the letter annotated verso in Hepburn's hand in black ink H. de Givenchy
11 x 8 in. (27.9 x 20.3 cm.)
A typescript letter, signed, from Hubert de Givenchy to Audrey Hepburn on 52 Rue des Saints-Peres, Paris headed stationery, dated 10 June, 1982, the one page letter written in French, addressed in black ink Mon Audrey, thanking her for her speech at the gala opening of Givenchy – 30 Years at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, 10 May, 1982, Givenchy tells her that he has just seen the film of the presentation, in which she arrived so beautifully in a black sheath, and how everything she said touched him deeply ...mon emotion etait immense, going on to remember the moment she asked him to be there for her children, should anything happen, he assures Audrey that she can always count on him, Givenchy ends by repeating his affection and tendresse, and signs Tres fort, Hubert, the letter annotated verso in Hepburn's hand in black ink H. de Givenchy
11 x 8 in. (27.9 x 20.3 cm.)
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