Title: Givenchy
Content: celebration at the Opera in Paris. In 1988, Givenchy joined LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. In 1991, a retrospective celebrated at the Galliera Palace the forty years of the fashion house. Hubert de Givenchy left the company in 1995. He was succeeded by some British young creators such as John Galliano, Alexander McQueen and Julien MacDonald. From December 2003 to 2006, the British cutter Ozwald Boateng is named as the artistic director of the Givenchy men's division. John Galliano succeeded Givenchy upon his retirement but was in turn promoted to Christian Dior less than two years later, prompting the hiring

Title: John Galliano
Content: Galliano as a fashion house, and is regarded as a 'fashion moment' in high fashion circles. In July 1995, he was appointed as the designer of Givenchy by Bernard Arnault, owner of luxury goods conglomerate LVMH, thus becoming the first British designer to head a French haute couture house. On 21 January 1996, Galliano presented his first couture show at the helm of Givenchy at the Stade de France. The collection received high praise within the fashion media. Some of Galliano's designs for Givenchy were licensed to Vogue Patterns. He was later replaced by Alexander McQueen. In October 1996, LVMH

Title: Hubert de Givenchy
Content: of his work at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The House of Givenchy was split in 1981, with the perfume line going to Veuve Clicquot, while the fashion branch was acquired by LVMH in 1989. As of today, LVMH owns Parfums Givenchy as well. Givenchy retired from fashion design in 1995. His successor to head the Givenchy label was John Galliano. After a brief stint by Galliano, a five-year stay from Alexander McQueen and a term from 2001 to 2004 by Julien Macdonald, Givenchy women's ready-to-wear and haute couture was then headed by Riccardo Tisci from 2005

Title: Dominique Sirop
Content: In 1978, he showed some sketches to Hubert de Givenchy, who hired him as an assistant designer. He stayed with Givenchy's studio until 1989, and while there his clients included Audrey Hepburn. Then from 1989 to 1996 he was a designer for Hanae Mori. He also turned to research and writing, going on to publish two books, "A Historical Overview of the House of Paquin" (1989) and "Jacqueline Delubac" (1994). He became an expert on the history of costume, and is consulted in this area by museum curators. In 1995, Sirop was Hubert de Givenchy's chosen successor as chief designer

Title: James de Givenchy
Content: creative director for Sotheby's Diamonds. In 2012, James de Givenchy was appointed as Baccarat's first creative director. Recently, James de Givenchy has been featured in Architectural Digest and Wall Street Journal among other publications. James de Givenchy James Claude Taffin de Givenchy (born August 27, 1963) is a French-born, New York-based jewelry designer and the owner of the jewelry company Taffin (founded in 1996). Givenchy grew up in Beauvais, a small town in the suburbs of Paris where the Parfums Givenchy has its factory and where his father, Jean Claude Taffin de Givenchy (1925–2009) and his uncle, the couturier Hubert

Question: Who became chief designer at Givenchy in 1996?
Answer: Alexander McQueen