DTH Marie Bariller, Dressing the Home: The Private Spaces of Top Fashion Designers (New York: Abrams, 2008).
DVF Gioia Diliberto, Diane von Furstenberg: A Life Unwrapped (New York: Dey Street, 2015).
FAL Miles Socha, “Loulou de La Falaise, YSL Collaborator, 63 [sic],” Women’s Wear Daily, November 7, 2011.
FB Interview by Felix Bischof.
FI Aneesha Gaba, “Fashion Icon,” L’Officiel India, November 2006.
FL Anthony Gardner, “Fashionocracy: Loulou de La Falaise,” Harper’s & Queen, April 1996.
FM Interview by Fallon Mulcahy.
FSF Eric Wilson, “Fernando Sanchez, Fashion Innovator, Is Dead at 70,” New York Times, July 3, 2006.
4TY Erin Lucas, “4 Things You Might Not Have Known About Loulou de La Falaise.” fashionmagazine.com, November 8, 2011.
GAF Elizabeth Lambert, “Gardens: A Festival of Memories, Among the Arts and Flowers in Sussex,” Architectural Digest, June 1985.
GP Glin Papers, Glucksman Library, University of Limerick.
HB Maureen Orth, “Hurley Birley,” Vanity Fair, February 2008.
HSM Peter Markham, “His Satanic Majesty’s Adventures in the Swinging Sixties: An Interview with Prince Stash Klossowski de Rola,” Ugly Things, no. 31 (2011).
HT Bob Colacello, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up (New York: Harper Perennial, 1991).
IDR Josyane Savigneau, “Itinéraire d’un rêveur,” Le Monde, April 4, 2013.
IFA Robert Colaciello (sic), “It’s a Family Affair: The McKendry−De La Falaise Clan,” Interview, March 1973.
JK Patti Smith, Just Kids (New York: Ecco, 2010).
JSN Franz-Olivier Gisbert and Janie Samet, “Yves Saint Laurent: ‘Je suis née avec une depression nerveuse…,’” Le Figaro, July 11, 1991.
LAF Pierre Thoretton, L’Amour Fou, Les Films du Lendemain, 2010.
LAM Marquise de La Falaise, Les années magnifiques (Paris: Édition 1, 1986).
LAY Pierre Bergé, Lettres à Yves (Paris: Folio, 2011).
LDM Catherine Schwaab, “Loulou de La Falaise: La Deuxième mort de Saint Laurent,” Paris Match, November 10−16, 2011.
LBT Pamela Andriotakis, “Loulou’s Back in Town—This Time as Saint Laurent’s Gilded Muse,” People, May 8, 1978.
LDL Marian McEvoy, “A Family with Style: Loulou de La Falaise,” Women’s Wear Daily, July 22, 1976.
LDF Ingrid Bleichroeder, “Louise de La Falaise,” British Vogue, June 1984.
LEE Marc Lambron, “Loulou de La Falaise, éternelle égérie,” Madame Figaro, April 20, 2012.
LF Francesca Fearon, “Loulou de La Falaise,” South China Morning Post, April 22, 2007.
LFD Axel Madsen, Living for Design: The Yves Saint Laurent Story (New York: Delacorte, 1979).
LFL Francesca Fearon, “Loulou de La Falaise Looks Back on the Extraordinary Life She Has Fashioned for Herself,” Hello!, February 27, 2002.
LFO “Loulou de La Falaise Obituary,” Guardian, November 8, 2011.
LGE Laurence Benaïm, “Les grandes excentriques: Loulou,” Paris Vogue, October 1992.
LLE Paquita Paquin, “Loulou l’extravagante,” puretrend.com, April 26, 2010.
LLF Marian McEvoy, “Lou Lou’s Four-Minute Wedding,” Women’s Wear Daily, June 14, 1977.
LLK Monique van Vooren, “Lou Lou Klossowski: No Polish Joke,” Interview, June 1977.
LPO Christa Worthington, “Loulou’s Playful Opulence,” W, January 13, 1984.
L&T Bettina von Hase, “Fashion: Sur la scène with Saint Laurent: LouLou & Thadée Klossowski,” Interview, April l984.
LOU G. Y. Dryansky, “Maxime and Loulou,” Women’s Wear Daily, February 18, 1972.
MAB Patricia Morrisroe, Mapplethorpe: A Biography (New York: Da Capo, 1997).
MAX Françoise Sciaky, “Maxime and Loulou,” Women’s Wear Daily, February 18, 1972.
MCJ Pierre Perrone, “Loulou de La Falaise: Muse, Confidante and Jewelry Designer for Yves Saint Laurent,” Independent, November 13, 2011.
MD Kate Bernard, unpublished article for The Sunday Times Style.
MDL Marian McEvoy, “A Family with Style: Maxime de La Falaise,” Women’s Wear Daily, July 22, 1976.
MG Marie-Dominique Lelièvre, Saint Laurent: Mauvais Garçon (Paris: Flammarion, 2010).
MHF Carola Peck, Mariga and Her Friends (Ballivor, Ireland: Hannon, 1997).
MM Lorna Koski, “Mad Maxime,” W, November 11−18, 1991.
PBO Kimberly Cutter, “Pierre Bergé on Life with Loulou De La Falaise & Yves Saint Laurent,” harpersbazaar.com, January 9, 2012.
PDC François Baudot, “Portrait d’une créatrice de bijoux: La bohème chic de Loulou de La Falaise,” Elle Décoration, September 1992.
QAA Paquita Paquin, “Quarante Ans auprès d’Yves Saint Laurent: Interview de Anne-Marie Muñoz, directrice du studio,” puretrend.com, March 29, 2010.
RB Julie Kavanagh, “A Family with Style: Rhoda Birley,” Women’s Wear Daily, July 22, 1976.
RTS Brighid McLaughlin, “Romancing the Stone,” Irish Independent, July 11, 1999.
SCE Maxime de La Falaise, Seven Centuries of English Cooking: A Collection of Recipes (New York: Grove, 1992).
SS Frances Dorléans, Snob Society (Paris: Flammarion, 2009).
TBF Alicia Drake, The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris (New York: Little, Brown, 2007), Kindle edition.
TBL Frédéric Mitterrand, The Bad Life: A Memoir, trans. Jesse Browner (New York: Soft Skull, 2010).
TEC Marion Hume, “The Eminence Chic,” Independent, December 20, 1992.
TFC Nicholas Coleridge, The Fashion Conspiracy (New York: HarperCollins, 1988).
TIL Jane Kramer, “The Impresario’s Last Act,” The New Yorker, November 21, 1994.
TIO Sarah St. George, “The Importance of Being Maxime de La Falaise,” Tatler, September 1993.
TSI Jill Robinson, “The Sanchez Impact: Feeding Our Fantasies,” Vogue, January 1978.
VR Thadée Klossowski de Rola, Vie rêvée (Paris: Grasset, 2013).
VRL Hamish Bowles, “Vogue Remembers Loulou de La Falaise,” vogue.com, November 7, 2011.
YSL Laurence Benaïm, Yves Saint Laurent (Paris: Grasset & Fasquelle, 2002), Kindle edition.
INTRODUCTION
"La deuxième mort LDM.
“spontaneous quality of” Jean Stein and George Plimpton, American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970), ix, x.
CHAPTER 1. SIR OSWALD AND LADY BIRLEY
[She was] the YSL, location 4326.
Rhoda, an Irish beauty Margalit Fox, “Maxime de La Falaise, Model, Designer and Muse, Is Dead at 86,” The New York Times, May 1, 2009.
She would make “Maxime de La Falaise,” Telegraph, May 3, 2009.
She was the only woman LGE.
[Loulou] was the true VRL.
For sheer longevity Georgina Howell, Vogue Women (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2000), 82.
[Rhoda’s] were the GAF.
Vavarina Pike… wore ALS.
garden labourer census.nationalarchives.ie.
Once my grandmother ALF.
[I was raised] RB.
In my family PDC.
You have to be ALS.
“been properly committed” Ann Pilling, birley.org/Kirkham.htm.
“a perfect house” Nikolaus Pevsner, AA Illustrated Guide to Britain (New York: W. W. Norton, 1996), 67.
Lady Birley had RB.
“good” royalcollection.org.uk
It was only Anne de Courcy, 1939: The Last Season (London: Thames & Hudson, 1989), 59, 61, 62, 63, 64.
After a time RB.
On the matter GAF.
She’s a very exotic RB.
Once I get ABL.
I never took Piers Dudgeon, Lifting the Veil: The Biography of Sir John Tavener (Sawdon, England: Pilot Productions, 2013), 51−52.
There is a mixture ABL.
It is quite TIO.
[My p
arents] were ALF.
My mother had MDL.
She spoke fluent ALS.
[My father] liked MM.
She was a LGE.
There’s some of MM.
In England, we’re LGE.
My relationship with Naim Attallah, Singular Encounters (London: Quartet, 1990), 69.
I think this upbringing LGE.
We’re more like ALS.
[My] breakup HB.
I liked blue ALF.
We gave what Michael Smith, The Debs of Bletchley Park and Other Stories (London: Aurum, 2015), 76.
[Mark Birley and I] Eulogy for Mark Birley, St. Paul’s Church, London, September 9, 2007.
CHAPTER 2. A TRIBE CALLED FALAISE
[Henry had] an LAM, 85.
MARQUIS DEFENDS RIGHT New York Times, October 7, 1925.
When I was ALI.
The Rodriguez Maldonados SS, 109.
“The great Cecil” Ibid., 111.
“dark skins” LAM, 179.
CHAPTER 3. ROGUE COUNTESS
[Loulou] comes from YSL, location 4274.
[Before marrying Alain] TIO.
[Alain] was very YSL, location 4278.
He had a ALF.
My father is LLK.
[Loulou] was born YSL, location 4282.
My grandmother always TFC, 238.
In my day LGE.
Françoise de la Renta MDL.
“a prompting spirit,” “The Way She Wears It,” Vogue, March 1, 1950.
All I had ALF.
Schiap dressed me “The Chic Chef Wears Separates to Be ‘Shuffled Around,’” The Blade, September 30, 1974.
[Schiaparelli] looked like MM.
[She] hated everybody LGE.
[Maxime] was then R. Couri Hay, “Charles James,” Interview, November 1972.
I was not a model IFA.
[But] I was chic ALS.
[The Duke of Windsor] MD.
Today, Hubert is MAX.
CHAPTER 4. LES MIS
I knew nothing TBF, location 99.
… the Thénardiers began Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, trans. Julie Rose (New York: Modern Library, 2009), 132, 319.
[Mme. Jean] was LGE.
Me, I was YSL, location 4290.
I hated clothes TEC.
When I was a little girl Robina Dam, “A Life in the Day: Loulou de La Falaise,” Sunday Times Magazine, October 22, 2006.
[that] everyone would DOD.
For a long YSL, location 4307.
I never needed Ibid., 4302.
I like the “Cahier de tendances: créateurs: Loulou de La Falaise,” Biba, February 2007.
Loulou would know IFA.
Alexis was the IFA.
We are lucky ALF.
CHAPTER 5. A PRECOCIOUS ITINERARY: SUSSEX TO GSTAAD, NEW YORK TO PROVENCE
[I designed] everything ALF.
[The] old vendeuses MAX.
[Then] I fanned ALF.
[People] offered me IFA.
“howls of rage” “The Countess Stole a Fashion Show,” Sun-Herald, January 9, 1955.
[The school] was TFC, 238.
Then, in desperation TFC, 235.
carrying such a TEC.
[its] paws were TFC, 235.
I just skidded TEC.
The poodle’s owner TFC, 236.
I was booted TEC.
I didn’t need LBT.
I also got TEC, 236
[Looking for a job] LDL.
Tall and erect Patrick Waldberg, Pfriem (Chicago: William and Noma Copley Foundation, 1961).
I had been in New York L&T.
The children really GP, P1/454 (2).
Madame Rambert was TFC, 238−239.
There I was L&T.
The young people Ibid.
CHAPTER 6. THE KNIGHT OF GLIN
I should love GP, P1/381 (14).
[Desmond] had a huge YSL, location 4298.
I used to walk ALF.
The Knight is virile J. Anthony Gaughan, The Knights of Glin (Mount Merrion, Ireland: Kingdom Books, 1978), 40.
“worn with a” Ibid., 81.
town of Glin Limerick Chronicle quoted in Tom Donovan, ed., The Knights of Glin: Seven Centuries of Change (Glin, Ireland: Glin Historical Society, 2009), 357.
“more schools than” “Desmond FitzGerald,” Telegraph, September 11, 2011.
“a white faggot” Hilton Als, The Women (New York: Noonday, 1996), 73.
it would make Robert O’Byrne, The Last Knight: A Tribute to Desmond FitzGerald, 29th Knight of Glin (Dublin: Lilliput, 2013), 20.
Everyone was mystified FB.
Price of house GP, P1/454 (2).
The children really Ibid.
The wedding dress Ibid., P1/454 (3).
My dear Mama Ibid., P1/381 (20).
Louise is going Ibid., P1/381 (21).
I’ve never seen ALS.
I’ve seen Loulou LFD, 81.
Mark really wanted HB.
“Take that dog” Ibid.
I can always Ibid.
[Leixlip] was the John Cornforth, The Inspiration of the Past (Harmondsworth, England: Viking, 1985), 109, 112−13.
Amateurs, dealers and “Mariga Guinness,” Independent, May 12, 1989.
She had no objection MHF, 131, 13, 87, preface.
“I am the senior princess” RTS.
“grande dame” Horst and Valentine Lawford, Vogue’s Book of Houses, Gardens, People (New York: Viking, 1968), 81.
“alarming” BIS, 124
In those days ALI.
CHAPTER 7. “SHE’S MARRIED TO A FAIRY, SO WHAT’S HER PROBLEM?”
As you must GP, P1/458 (10).
I married the MAB, 99
He was fascinated Ibid., 101.
I desperately want GP, P1/454 (2).
Fantastic man, John’s IFA.
I’ve always lived MDL.
I like the idea LOU.
In northwestern Canada IFA.
[John] was very musical ALF.
CHAPTER 8. DONALD CAMMELL, SEX ADDICT
[Desmond] had a huge YSL, location 4298..
I used to walk ALF.
It was a singularly ALS.
I did not GP, P1/381 (31).
Desmond and I LDL.
London life was L&T.
I suddenly found LDL.
I never really L&T.
Desmond had YSL, location 4298.
He had these little demonic teeth DC.
Donald didn’t have Ibid.
Deborah was making Ibid.
I went to someone’s house Ibid.
Donald was the kind of guy Ibid.
Everyone who knew Ibid.
Death seemed like Ibid.
“in the fresh” “Vogue’s Own Boutique of Suggestions, Finds and Observations,” Vogue, July 1, 1968.
“Fuck him” Paul Trynka, Brian Jones: The Making of the Rolling Stones (New York: Viking, 2014), 291.
Chapter 9. HIPPIE DE LUXE LONDONIENNE
There was the ritual VR, 36.
She was one LBT.
Violet velvet trousers LGE.
[She] may be TSI.
Well, somebody had L&T.
In England, we LLE.
I had come LLK.
I wore ultra-short LLE.
In Paris they LLK.
Nobody spoke English LGE.
[Yves] thought it LLK.
When I tell LLE.
It was all L&T.
[Yves] was as FI.
Bergé was quite ALI.
I also thought LLE.
In the beginning, Yves LEE.
[She was] ultra-avant-garde DCC.
[But] the intellectual MG, 105−106.
Back then, Loulou APL.
It’s a sort TBF, 100.
As the child LLE.
The thing that LAF.
I fell in DJL.
After that stay LLE.
CHAPTER 10. THE YEARS BETWEEN, 1968−1972
Loulou moved to VRL.
Mr. Sanchez was FSF
.
He had a Ibid.
[As a child,] TSI.
I was saved TFC, 239.
[Loulou is] not LOU.
We constantly reinvented LGE.
Three pins and ALS.
She dresses from Ibid.
Life has been GP, P1/381 (36).
I divorced and L&T.
Loulou always reproached LEE.
My closest friend MDL.
It’s very middle IFA.
Alain once said Ibid.
He’s been through Ibid.
had lunch … with Loulou AWD, 363−364.
Alexis was being FB.
“held on by” Lady Annabel Goldsmith, Annabel: An Unconventional Life (London: Orion, 2004), 187−188.
In the summer HT, 96.
Andy came back Ibid., 90−91, 92.
Everybody loves my MDL.
When you’ve worked ALF.
Things came to JK, 155−156.
I knew that socializing MAB, 102.
I think people Ibid., 101.
I hope that Ibid., 108.
Nobody was shocked Ibid., 103.
Robert felt Ibid., 103.
Yves didn’t speak Ibid., 105.
The good times LOU.
I used to LDL.
There’s a choice LOU.
CHAPTER 11. LOULOU & YVES
One fine day LLE.
I got a LLK.
I was on LLE.
I was in Marbella FM.
All I had ALS.
He suddenly decided LLK.
No one in the studio LLE.
He was vague L&T.
When I joined TFC, 237.
At first I LDL.
I used to LLK.
I drew like YSL, location 5592.
I never thought FI.
I suggest things LOU.
[Yves and I] LLK.
Loulou was in awe FM.
I get bored Women’s Wear Daily, January 7, 1972.
Maybe one world TBF, location 101, 102, 122.
After a while LLE.
Before I met LDL.
I’ve never been LLK.
I loved how ALI.
Back then, we MCJ.
[Yves and I] LFL.
[Loulou] was the LEE.
[Loulou] was very TBF, location 100.
It is important LFD, 16.
Her presence at LGE.
I can’t explain LFD, 16.
My working methods LBT.
I trust her LFD, 80.
She is charm LPO.
We make a LFD, 54.
We breathe with Ibid., 66.
Yves is the LDF.
It’s total collaboration LLK.
A lot of L&T.
Yves and Pierre TBF, location 101.
We have a L&T.
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