Lison Le Guen

Lison Le Guen is currently a third-year PhD student in Art History at the HiCSA laboratory of the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and she is also part of the doctoral program “Theories and Practices of fashion” between Institut Français de la mode and Université Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne. She is writing a thesis entitled “Hubert de Givenchy, a French couturier in the United States (1952-1995)”, under the supervision of Prof. Pascal Rousseau and with the support of the Heritage department of Givenchy (LVMH). Her research focuses on the presence and the influence strategy of one of the most important French couturiers of the second half of the 20th century, and transatlantic ties in fashion in the aftermath of World War II. Combining cultural history, global history and material culture, this study is supported by two-month research stays in the United States which enabled her to collaborate with numerous American institutions. In addition, her long standing interest in the history of French Haute couture and its links with the American context has enabled her to participate in several conferences and academic workshop in French Universities. Moreover, she is also secretary of SARTORIA, a research association in Fashion and Art History, where she was able to manage the communications and social media division, write articles about the different seminars, and organize events such as the major performance evening “Défaire les censures” (Undoing Censorship), which took place in May 2025 at the French Institute of Art History.