Givenchy Creative Directors, 1952–2026
Marco De Vincenzo’s appointment as head of leather goods design on 26 May 2026 makes Sarah Burton the first Givenchy creative director since Riccardo Tisci to share authority over the house’s most commercial category — and reopens the question of what continuity at Givenchy has ever actually meant. The list of Givenchy creative directors since the house opened in February 1952 is short and uneven: Hubert de Givenchy himself for 43 years, then six successors in 31 years under LVMH. Read end-to-end, from the founder’s Bettina blouse through John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Julien Macdonald, Tisci, Clare Waight Keller, Matthew M. Williams and now Burton, the house’s design lineage looks less like a single thread and more like a sequence of complete brand reinventions, each one priced against the next. ...