#loulou & yves

[kitsunetsuki]

Barry Lategan - Cecille & Loulou de la Falaise, Outtakes for the Paris Collection by Yves Saint Laurent, 1971, from Unseen Vogue: The Secret History of Fashion Photography by Robin Derrick and Robin Muir (2004)

[conformi]

Yves Saint Laurent flanked by the bride and groom Loulou de La Falaise and Thadée Klossowski, Chalet des Îles, Bois de Boulogne | Paris, France, 1977 photo by Guy Marineau VS Antonio Canova, The Three Graces, 1812-1817

[seventyskid]

[jacquesdemys]

I would like to end 2022 by sharing five six of the most hilarious anecdotes I read in fashion (related) books this year. (also... find me on GoodReads!)

1) Corey Tippin realizes Karl Lagerfeld is a fucking freak. (The Beautiful Fall by Alicia Drake, 2006)

2) The guest who refused to leave when Bernard Buffet’s 30th-birthdy party orgy was about to start. (Bernard Buffet: The Invention of the Modern Mega-Artist by Nicholas Foulkes, 2016)

3) Pierre Cardin’s stress-induced sweeping compulsion. (Pierre Cardin: The Man who Became a Label by Richard Morais, 1991)

4) André Leon Talley afraid of Maxime de la Falaise serving him dog-placenta soup. (Loulou & Yves by Christopher Petkanas, 2018)

4) Cristobal Balenciaga sees a former model wearing an outfit by André Courrèges and comments on the outfit... (The Master of Us All: Balenciaga, His Workrooms, His World by Mary Blume, 2013)

5) Patti D’Arbanville, Corey Tippin, Donna Jordan, et al. trying to get Helmut Berger’s attention at Yves & Pierre’s place (The Beautiful Fall by Alicia Drake, 2006)

6) Guy Bourdin almost setting Karl Lagerfeld’s house on fire. (Karl: No Regrets by Patrick Hourcade, 2021)

I’m excited to discover 2023′s anecdotes!! 

[larevuedecinema]

loulou

[blackswaneuroparedux]

“Muse” est un mot qui me fait rigoler, parce que personne ne sait ce qu’il signifie. C’est l’influence d’une attitude, je suppose, mais le mot est complètement faux, il ne semble pas faire partie de la vie réelle. Alors que, bien au contraire, mon influence sur Yves relève entièrement de la vie réelle, l’amie qui travaille avec lui et qui, de temps en temps, lui dit: “Ne sois pas aussi bête, Yves.”

- LouLou de la Falaise

Loulou de la Falaise was model, designer, and more well known as Yves Saint Laurent’s long-running muse for his fashion designs.

Cecil Beaton famously said she was the only English woman he knew who could be “really chic in really hideous clothes” - de la Falaise was part of high society. But she was also always a hard worker that became a fashion icon. She became the quintessential Rive Gauche haute bohémienne.

Born on 4 May 1948 in England, Louise Vava Lucia Henriette de la Falaise had an Irish mother, Maxime Birley, Elsa Schiaparelli's favourite model, and a French father, Alain de la Falaise. She was the granddaughter of the artist Oswald Birley, official painter to the Royal Court. From the age of 7, Loulou de La Falaise studied at a boarding school in England, then in Switzerland. She spent her teenage years in London, then the capital of pop culture, and then became a fashion editor before following her mother to New York in the 1960s. She then posed for fashion photos and designed prints for Halston. In New York she was firm friends with Andy Warhol and immersed herself in the fashion scene there.

She didn’t have much luck in relationships. She was first married at 18 years old to an Irish aristocrat, Desmond Fitzgerald, from whom she soon separated. In 1977, Loulou de la Falaise married Thadée Klossowski de Rola, son of the painter Balthus, a marriage organised by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé on a small island in the Bois de Boulogne. She has a daughter, Anna, born in 1986, of whom Yves Saint Laurent was godfather.

Yves Saint Laurent once said of his muse, “Loulou de la Falaise's real talent, apart from her undeniable professional qualities, was her charm. She had the strange power of the gift of lightness, mixed with an irreproachable acuity of her look on fashion. Intuitive, innate, unique.” Loulou de la Falaise met him in 1968, at a tea party given by his stylist friend, Fernando Sanchez. She joined Yves Saint Laurent in 1972 at the designer's request and quickly became one of his closest collaborators. Loulou de La Falaise, who had a passion for colour and a gift for eccentricity, remained at his side for 30 years, creating jewellery and hats for the haute couture house.

While many consider her Yves’s ‘muse’, she was much more than that, and became head designer for accessories. She was literally his taste check, someone he could depend on to brainstorm concepts with, finalise colour  selections. She said once, "Accessories have an important role in our stressful lives. If you go out to dinner and you don't have time to go home and change, you can take off your jacket and put on a piece of jewellery," She loved rare woods and brightly coloured stones, giant enamel flowers and had hearts fashioned from rock crystal, her lucky material. "The important thing is to invent yourself," she used to say.

After Yves Saint Laurent’s death in 2002, Loulou de la Falaise launched her own brand and collaborated with different groups by creating jewellery lines. In 2011, she created a line of jewellery exclusively for the Majorelle garden boutique in Marrakech, the garden that also housed Yves Saint Laurent's ashes. Loulou de la Falaise passed away 2011.

Photo: Loulou de la Falaise and Yves Saint Laurent at a party, 1978.

[lilycrylique]

Jour 4 : Exotique

Day 4 : Exotic

Dessin traditionnel tracé au crayon à papier puis encré avec les stylos Pigma Micron, de la taille 005 (0,25 mm) à la taille 8 (0,50 mm).

Cette fois, il s'agit d'un hommage au grand couturier français Yves Saint Laurent et son compagnon Pierre Bergé, en compagnie de leurs amies et muses : Betty Catroux et Loulou de la Falaise partageant un moment de thé dans les jardins Majorelle à Marrakech.

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Traditional drawing, first with a pencil then inked with the Pigma Micron pens.

This time, it's a tribute to the great French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and his companion Pierre Bergé, in the company of their friends and muses: Betty Catroux and Loulou de la Falaise sharing tea time in the Majorelle gardens in Marrakech .

[ghw-archive]

Loulou de la Falaise. Photographed by Jean-Pierre Masclet

[fancyogi]

Paris apartment of Loulou de la Falaise, Yves Saint Laurent's muse and confidante.

[andrasta14]

So the cover of my book journal has me feeling like uncultured swine again, because all the book titles on it are famous couples/duos in literature, tv shows and movies etc and at least half of them have me like: ?????

I'm enough of a nerd to want to know where they're all from, and it's been bugging me for years. But Googling them feels somehow unsporting to me. lol (Plus I think some of the spellings are French?)

So...see a pair you recognize? Let me know. 🙏

~ Couples Listed ~

Fanfan & Alexandre = ???

Lana & Clark = Superman

Paul & Joanne = ???

Andromacue & Hector = The Iliad/Greek Mythology

Leonard & Salaì = ???

Orpheus and Eurydice = Greek Mythology

Lisbeth & Miriam = ???

Mathilde & Manech = ???

Chimène & Rodrigue = ???

Emma & Dexter = ???

Yves & Pierre = Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé

Arlequin & Columbine = ???

Julien & Mme de Rênal = The Scarlet and the Black

Edward & Vivian = ???

Edith and Marcel = ???

Marty & Jennifer = Back to the Future

Franck & Ava = ???

Jack & Rose = Titantic

Elisabeth & Richard = ???

Chouchou & Loulou = ??? (The hell kind of names are those? lol)

Roger & Jessica = ??? (Idk the first thing that jumped to mind was Roger & Jessica Rabbit lol)

Figaro & Rosine = The Marriage of Figaro

Christian & Anastasia = 50 Shades of Grey

Leeloo & Korhen = ???

Abelard & Héloïse = medieval historical romance, unsure of details

Valmont & Cecile = Dangerous Liaisons

Sam & Molly = ???

Gaston & Melle Jeanne = ???

Drazic & Anita = ???

Don Juan & Charlotte = Don Juan/Don Giovanni

Mike & Susan = Desperate Housewives

Helen & Paris = The Iliad/Greek Mythology

Quasimodo & Esmeralda = The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Rachel & Ross = Friends

Marilyn & John = Marilyn Munroe and John F. Kennedy?

Satine & Christian = Moulin Rouge

Dorian & Henri = The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Tarzan & Jane = Tarzan

Edward & Bella = Twilight

Nino & Amélie = Amélie

Mulder & Scully = The X-Files

Arthur & Paul = Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine

Harry & Sally = When Harry Met Sally

Sandy & Danny = Grease

Benny & Joon = Benny & Joon

Toi & Moi = ???

Maverick & Charlie = Top Gun

Candy & Anthony = ???

Odysseus & Penelope = The Odyssey/The Iliad/Greek Mythology

Thelma & Louise = Thelma & Louise

Titus & Berenice = Titus and Berenice is a 1676 tragedy by Thomas Otway.

Ariane & Solal = ???

Paul & Virginie = Paul and Virginie by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1788).

Johnny & BB = ???

Cyrano & Roxane = Cyrano de Bergerac

Marius & Fanny = ???

Chloe & Colin = ???

Adam & Eve = The Bible

Tristan & Iseult = Tristan and Isolde

Bonnie & Clyde = the historical Bonnie & Clyde

Popeye & Olive = Popeye the Sailor Man

Simone & Yves = ???

Buffy & Angel = Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Lauren & Humphrey = Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart?

Carrie and Mr Big = Sex in the City

Harry & Ginny = Harry Potter series

Clarence & Alabama = ???

Alceste & Célimène = ???

Lancelot & Guinevere = Arthurian legend

~*~

Edit:

From @theduchessofboredom

#arthur & paul could be art (arthur) garfunkel and paul simon #paul & virginie is the title of a famous 18th century novel #nino and amélie is definitely Amélie :) #yves & pierre are yves saint-laurent and pierre bergé

From @that-laj

Marty & Jennifer are from Back to the Future, if they’re the Marty and Jennifer I think they are.

@didoscity

Mike and susan are from desperate housewives (embarassed to know this). Also arthur and paul are definitely, to me, arthur rimbaud and paul verlaine. sorry for simon and garfunkel 😂

oh and titus and berenice is the name of a tragedy by corneille!

[kitsunetsuki]

Barry Lategan - Loulou de la Falaise for Yves Saint Laurent (Vogue UK 1971)

[adreciclarte4]

Loulou de la Falaise e Yves Saint Laurent, 1972 by Clive Arrowsmith

[kazifatagar]

Burberry Now REDUCING Handbag Prices to Attract Customers Again

Luxury brands like Burberry and Yves Saint Laurent are quietly cutting prices of designer handbags after realizing high costs had driven away key customers. Earlier this year, Burberry reduced its Knight handbag by 22%, and YSL cut the Loulou bag by 10%. Despite aiming to enhance exclusivity, these brands are now making their products more accessible.  Burberry’s recent CEO change and profit…

[gastronominho]

LouLou está com novidades no cardápio

O bar e restaurante localizado no coração dos Jardins, está apresentando novas opções para os seus clientes

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[fashioneditswebsite]

Bella Hadid walks the Saint Laurent runway after 2-year hiatus

Kate Moss and Linda Evangelista turned up to show their support. They were eagerly anticipating seeing Bella Hadid walk the Saint Laurent runway. Bella Hadid returned to the runway after being absent for two years at Saint Laurent's Fashion Week show. In 2022, the 27-year-old model was noticeably absent from the runways after stepping back to prioritize her health. She has openly discussed her ongoing struggle with Lyme disease, which led her to take this break. Her comeback highlighted Bella Hadid walking the Saint Laurent show. Hadid wore a masculine suit and tie and slicked back hair (Vianney Le Caer/AP) Hadid showcased a mannish oversized suit and tie, thick-frame tinted specs, and a slicked-back ponytail. Hadid's look was one of several nods to the Seventies wardrobe of Yves Saint Laurent himself throughout the show, which the label's director, Anthony Vaccarello, presented in the form of fluid suits and layered overcoats. View this post on Instagram A post shared by SAINT LAURENT (@ysl) Saint Laurent's summer ready-to-wear collection, held at the house's Rue de Bellechasse headquarters, perfectly blends old-school elegance and modern sophistication. Supermodel royalty Kate Moss and Linda Evangelista sat in the front row. They were excited to witness Bella Hadid's moment as she walked the Saint Laurent runway. " Furthermore, Yves Saint Laurent once said, 'Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.'" Furthermore, Vaccarello's masterful brand reinvention since 2016 has been widely recognized. This year's collection diverged from the practical theme of the previous year, featuring a juxtaposition of sharp, tailored power suits and flamboyant brocade broad-shouldered jackets, showcasing a shift towards quiet luxury with maximalist accents. Bella Hadid, who was walking the Saint Laurent runway, contributed to this transformative vision. The runway featured suits in anthracite, black, and deep plum. They included double-breasted jackets and wide-legged trousers. Vaccarello's this season was all about control and precision. The impeccably cut clothes departed from past seasons' revealing, boundary-pushing looks, reaffirming that power sometimes comes from being fully dressed. Bella Hadid exemplified this as she walked the Saint Laurent runway in her poised manner. Additionally, the accessories added just the right amount of flair to the collection. Each look featured weighty gold bangles, wide ties, and jewel-encrusted shoes, adding a touch of the glamour Saint Laurent is known for. Bella Hadid's presence on the runway amplified this glamorous atmosphere. Additionally, Vaccarello paid homage to YSL muses such as Loulou de la Falaise with these bold, statement pieces, anchoring the otherwise unassuming looks in the brand's history. Bella Hadid's walk in Saint Laurent furthered this homage. Moreover, as the show progressed, Vaccarello pivoted from sleek tailoring to extravagant eveningwear, injecting color and playfulness into the collection. Rich Seventies jewel tones, from fuchsia to canary yellow, lit up the catwalk as brocade blazers and sheer blouses debuted. Bella Hadid walked the Saint Laurent runway with these vibrant pieces, embodying the designer's creative vision. Yves Saint Laurent's 1970s era inspired the shift from formal suits to vibrant eveningwear. This change pays homage to the house's history while reflecting Vaccarello's forward-thinking approach. Bella Hadid's appearance on the runway encapsulated this blend of past and future. The collection elevated relaxed pieces with luxurious fabrics and dazzling accessories, paying homage to Saint Laurent's Bohemian connection. Bella Hadid graced the runway, fully realizing this homage to YSL. Zoe Kravitz, ever the epitome of Saint Laurent cool, was among the star-studded front row, dressed in an all-black lace ensemble that perfectly matched the collection's stated glamour. Bella Hadid's walk was a highlight here. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Andrew Mukamal (@andrewmukamal) Vaccarello's summer collection was a tribute to Yves Saint Laurent's and a masterclass in balancing restraint with power and elegance with edge. Seeing Bella Hadid walk the Saint Laurent runway added to the collection's gravitas. Bella Hadid's return to Saint Laurent in a streamlined suit proved that the label symbolizes timeless sophistication. Sometimes, the loudest statement is made most quietly. Read the full article