#thadée klossowski

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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

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Thadée Klossowski de Rola and Nico photographed by Andy Warhol, 1972.

[carraways-son]

Mardi

Ciel gris, mais la couleur veut bien se montrer quand on l'en prie. Toulouse, je marche. Je viens de retomber par hasard sur cette citation de Thadée Klossowski de Rola (fils du peintre Balthus), tirée de "Vie rêvée", pas très intéressante mais qui m'a renvoyé à mes 17-18 ans, là, dans ce même café où, séchant les cours du sinistre lycée où l'on m'avait exilé, je venais en parfait imposteur me mêler au beau monde : (...) et puis une heure à Toulouse dans la nuit, terrasse du café Lafayette, place Wilson, quelques visages enfantins, jeunesse sérieuse, étudiante, à qui je prête une certaine violence des sentiments. D'accord pour le visage enfantin et la violence des sentiments, mais je n'étais alors ni sérieux ni étudiant. Peu après, je passerai de longues heures au Laf' à attendre F en faisant durer l'unique expresso que je pouvais m'offrir. Le Lafayette a depuis longtemps disparu, et avec lui les voitures de sport qui se garaient avec ostentation devant sa terrasse. Mais je n'ai rien oublié, et le ciel est resté gris toute la journée.

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Jacques de Bascher - Thadée Klossowski - Karl Lagerfeld

[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.

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Thadée Klossowski, Paloma Picasso & Yves Saint Laurent photographed by Andy Warhol, c. 1970.

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[wildhedonism]

THADÉE, PALOMA ET YVES

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4. Bataille's work was disseminated in a wide variety of publications. It was only after the war, in 1946, that he gave the bulk of his articles to this critical review

which he had founded

to which until the end he gave so much care

The task of the editors was therefore considerable. It would not have been possible without

the attention, the help of Ms. Diane Bataille

the advice of Mr. Jean Bruno

The work of collating the texts, reading and putting the manuscripts into focus, establishing critical apparatus has been carried out, since 1967, by

Mr. Denis Hollier for volumes I and II

Mr. Thadée Klossowski for volumes III and IV

Mme Leduc for volume V

Mr. Henri Ronse and J.-M. Rey for the last five volumes

– Michel Foucault, Présentation chez Bataille, Ouvres completes, Paris, Gallimard, 1970, t. I: Premiers Ecrits 1922-1940, pp. 5-6

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Thadée Klossowski de Rola and Loulou de la Falaise by Guy Marineau on their wedding day in Paris, 1977

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Loulou de la Falaise and Thadée Klossowski at The Palace, 1978

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Elle me disait "shut the door" et moi j'entendais "je t'adore".

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