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Following fall 2024 shows for men (in January) and women (in March) that were both presented inside Givenchy’s home on Avenue George V, this 2025 pre-co lookbook saw the design studios join forces to shoot their respective collections on the sidewalk outside it. Over a Zoom Susanna Venegas (who design-directs the womenswear) and Josh Bullen (ditto menswear-wise) explained their rationale. Said Venegas: “We work separately, but also have a pretty constant conversation.

And while we both have our own inspirations, there is also that language that we share. So when it came to shooting this lookbook it was about exploring a narrative between the two collections.” Added Bullen: “We both work to very different timings, so it’s hard to do something that is fully linked.



.. so here we wanted to introduce some looks as couples because it’s not something that we’ve been able to do before.

And when it came to styling and looking at both collections, there were some particular combinations that looked really good together.” Venegas said her cipher for this collection was Stella Tennant (with a touch of Paula Yates). Bullen meanwhile leaned towards John Lydon via Julan Schnabel.

These differing directions in part reflected their different design backgrounds, respectively in couture (at Dior, before a stint at Margiela), and in technically advanced utilitarian menswear (Stone Island). When the collections were shot together, the intersections thrown up by this adjacency were.

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