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Reformation launches jewellery with Clare Waight Keller

American sustainable fashion brand Reformation has launched its first jewellery collection created with former Chloé and Givenchy creative director Clare Waight Keller. The limit-edition vintage-inspired capsule jewellery collection draws inspiration from the roaring 20s and features earrings, bracelets, and necklaces all made with certified...

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Uniqlo names Clare Waight Keller as creative director

Japanese retailer Uniqlo has appointed British designer Clare Waight Keller as its creative director. Waight Keller, the former creative director for leading fashion houses, including Chloé, Givenchy, and Pringle of Scotland, will be responsible for Uniqlo’s mainline collection, including menswear, from autumn/winter 2024. The new role is an...

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In Pictures: Former Givenchy artistic director Clare Waight Keller to launch Uniqlo collection

British fashion designer Clare Waight Keller, who was the former artistic director of luxury label Givenchy, will create her next collection with Japanese brand Uniqlo. Launching on September 15, the ‘UNIQLO:C’ FW23 womenswear collection will feature “timeless designs, subtle use of color, and roomy silhouettes in contemporary materials”, Uniqlo...

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Clare Waight Keller speaks out on Givenchy exit

British fashion designer Clare Waight Keller has called her tenure at Givenchy as artistic director as “three truly wonderful years” in a statement on her personal Instagram page. The news of her departure came as a shock to many, especially as in such a short period, the British designer had elevated the fashion houses’ couture collections as...

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Clare Waight Keller, Jennifer Hyman & Pierpaolo Piccioli on Time’s 100 most influential people list

Time magazine has featured three fashion professionals on this year’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world. They are Clare Waight Keller, Artistic Director of Givenchy; Jennifer Hyman, Founder and CEO of Rent the Runway; and Pierpaolo Piccioli, Creative Director of Valentino. Appointed in 2017, Keller is Givenchy’s first female...

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Video: AW19 show by Givenchy in Paris

Givenchy Fall Winter 2019/2020 by Clare Waight Keller on the catwalks in Paris. Source: FF Channel, YouTube.

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Video: Meghan Markle - The Duchess of Sussex - British Designer Womenswear Givenchy @ The Fashion Awards

Meghan Markle makes a special appearance at The Fashion Awards to announce the winners. Source: Youtube, Fashion Feed

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The Fashion Awards names 2018 winners

The Duchess of Sussex was the surprise guest at The Fashion Awards 2018, shining a light on British talent globally, to present the designer of her wedding dress, Clare Waight Keller of Givenchy, with the coveted British Womenswear Designer of the Year award. Wearing a black Givenchy gown, the Duchess cradled her pregnancy bump as she appeared...

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Inside the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's wedding exhibition

Displaying Royal wedding gowns to the public is a “long-standing tradition that stretches back centuries,” states Caroline de Guitaut, senior curator at the Royal Collection Trust, and Windsor Castle will be showcasing the Duchess of Sussex’s timeless Givenchy Couture gown for the first time in the castle's Grand Reception Room, where the Queen...

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Meghan Markle champions female designers for wedding

Having chosen to wear a haute couture wedding gown designed by Clare Waight Keller for Givenchy for her nuptials to Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, the new Duchess of Sussex, turn to another British fashion designer, Stella McCartney to design her second wedding dress for the evening celebrations. Like Waight Keller, a British designer who is the...

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Designer Waight Keller wows with Givenchy couture debut

British designer Clare Waight Keller made a flawless Paris haute couture debut at Givenchy, with critics swooning over her moonlit sonata in black and white. The 47-year-old creator, who quit Chloe in March, had never before tackled a haute couture collection -- the handmade pinnacle of the fashion pyramid. But she made both a daring and...

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Overview: Designers' Musical Chair Dance in 2017

London - The musical chair dance occurring within the fashion industry, which sees a number of high profile designers leave their former roles as creative director for similar positions at rival fashion houses, continued well throughout 2017. Now that the year is almost over, FashionUnited takes a moment to review the most striking changes of...