There was no lobby, really, which meant that Italian “zaddies” with miraculously groomed chest hair wandered in and out as we spoke, glancing curiously at the fresh-faced British woman at the head of a dining room table covered in an orderly array of documents. We were seated in a sort of meeting room on the ground floor of the boutique hotel where she was staying-a place that had been designed to feel like a private home. She had arrived in Florence just 90 minutes before we sat down to chat, having come to present a menswear collection as the special guest designer at Pitti Uomo, the Italian trade-show leg of the Men's Fashion Week circuit. “You kind of always saw them as this fashion couple,” Waight Keller said. She explained that she drew inspiration from the relationship between the house's namesake and founder, Hubert de Givenchy, and the actress Audrey Hepburn, who began working together early in the 1950s. “My initial process going in, and actually even in the talks of looking to join Givenchy, was about the fact that I very much saw the house as a very strong vision of a couple,” Waight Keller told me when we first met, in Florence, Italy, this past June. It was her vision for a new, more holistic version of the brand that helped her land the job.
The woman behind this fantasy is the English designer Clare Waight Keller, who has been Givenchy's artistic director since 2017, overseeing both menswear and womenswear for the venerable French fashion house.
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