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Loulou & Yves

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by Christopher Petkanas


  [Yves and I] VRL.

  [He] is an intellectual PDC.

  I think about LFD, 190.

  I tend to FL.

  I never noticed LLE.

  I started with QAA.

  “I look a” YSL, location 5383.

  It was up to me QAA.

  She gave [Yves] TBF, location 146.

  I’ve never been Ibid., location 145.

  If the mannequin LLE.

  Obviously we have L&T.

  Fashion goes through FAL.

  She reacted, added BS.

  The House of TIL

  It is not TFC, 236-237.

  Chapter 12. ANNE-MARIE MUÑOZ, MATER DOLOROSA

  Black hair framing YSL, location 7000.

  I was what QAA.

  I remember Raymonde Ibid.

  As he grew Patrick McCarthy, Edwina LaFarge and John A. Byrne, “St. Laurent’s Anne-Marie Muñoz,” Women’s Wear Daily, January 3, 1980.

  His passion is YSL, location 7015.

  There was a dress rehearsal LLE.

  They put me JSN.

  Without Anne-Marie MG, 75.

  I wasn’t intimidated LLE.

  [Yves is] like DOD.

  [Mme. Zehnacker’s] serene CDI, 26.

  She does her YSL, location 7007.

  After every show As told to Marie-Dominique Lelièvre.

  I hadn’t sat QAA.

  CHAPTER 13. THADÉE—OR RICARDO?

  When [Loulou] returned DCC.

  “a kiss on her neck” VR, 259.

  It is enough Carson Chan, “Ricardo Bofill: The Future of the Past,” mono.kultur, Spring 2014.

  [Marrakech] was one YSL, location 4045.

  [John Stefanidis’s] friends Ben Brantley, “Worldly Designs,” Vanity Fair, October 1988.

  “pathetic with her” VR, 154.

  “entire box” Ibid., 165.

  “Heptamyl, what you” Ibid.,167.

  That was another APL.

  I don’t have Sofia Tchkonia, “Love, Money, God: Interviews with Icons and Muses: Betty Catroux,” showstudio.com, 2015.

  Fortunately, I don’t APL.

  I always went to work TBF, location 261.

  I don’t know Judy Fayard, “Breadth of a Salesman,” Women’s Wear Daily, May 30, 1978.

  [It was a] small world DJL.

  I don’t like L&T.

  I am frightfully TBF, 239.

  I think to TBF, location 238.

  Contrary to his IDR.

  Such lovely manners DJL.

  Of course, like IDR.

  As a dad DJL.

  All this makes L&T.

  It was… a very nineteenth-century HSM.

  My father only IDR.

  [Thadée and Stash] lacked Nicholas Fox Weber, Balthus: A Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), 521.

  “psychiatrique” VR, 9.

  “the pickings were” HSM.

  “Well, that deserves” Marianne Faithfull with David Dalton, Faithfull: An Autobiography (New York: Little, Brown, 1994), 158.

  “quite a few” Mark Paytress, “A Man of Wealth and Taste,” Mojo, February 2009.

  I remember seeing BIS, 223.

  Stash had the bullshit credentials Keith Richards with James Fox, Life (New York: Little, Brown: 2010), 428.

  I lived in DJL.

  Fortunately, I dismiss DJL.

  “decidedly” VR, 23.

  Célia… worked at TBL, 216-217.

  It was very difficult ABY.

  [Nureyev] was the Ibid.

  “He’s a bastard” VR, 112.

  [Loulou] fell asleep Ibid., 86.

  In December 1972 Thadée Klossowski de Rola, “My Loulou,” afterword in Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni, Loulou de La Falaise (New York: Rizzoli, 2014), 263.

  “I can’t bear” VR, 88.

  “You want my friend?” Ibid., 122

  I’m going to talk Ibid., 201−202.

  “I know I’m” Ibid.,181.

  [Loulou] started to Ibid., 181.

  “was really chic” Charles Dantzig, “L’insoutenable légèreté de Charlotte Aillaud,” Vanity Fair (French edition), October 2014.

  “so I can” VR, 176−177.

  “My entire life” Ibid., 166−167.

  “Today” Ibid., 76.

  “a tweed jacket” “The Incredible Loulou… A Decade in the Life of a Style Setter,” British Vogue, August 1977.

  You know very well VR, 167.

  [French society was] TBF, location 100.

  “pet poodles” VR, 150.

  “precious few men” “Queen of ‘The Scene,’ the Girl Who Has Everything Plus,” Newsweek, August 27, 1973.

  Boys are always LOU.

  “I often hear” VR, 224.

  “a doctor told” Ibid., 224

  “told me about” Ibid., 228.

  “What am I” Ibid., 203.

  “I learned she’s” Ibid., 216.

  “tempted to go” Ibid., 231.

  “that agonizing period” Ibid., 235.

  makes me want Ibid., 229.

  Kenzo was the TBF, location 22.

  “tummy trouble,” “Eye,” Women’s Wear Daily, January 16, 1975.

  “unofficially married” LDL.

  CHAPTER 14. GLUE-GUNNING AHEAD OF THE CURVE

  Once you have SCE, 5.

  Take gode cow Ibid., 34.

  I choose things MAX.

  [Before dinner, one] Jonathan Lieberson, Varieties: Essays (New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988), 31−33, 35.

  I get dressed Marian McEvoy, “Quality People: On Loulou…,” Women’s Wear Daily, October 15, 1975.

  New York ladies Stephen Birmingham, “Hardy Andy,” Town & Country, May 1973.

  “‘nursery’ cocktail” Joan Kron, “Andy’s Automat,” New York Times, May 12, 1977.

  The hundreds of SCE, xvi.

  I’ve never really MD.

  I’ve never been MM.

  [My mother] is TFC, 338.

  I’m a mass Patrick O’Higgins, “In New York, If She Cooks, Writes and Designs, It Must be Maxime,” People, April 28, 1975.

  1 August 1970. Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare, eds., Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin (London: Viking, 2011), 155, 157.

  John was playing MAB, 100.

  Loulou said John AWD, 364.

  On the surface JK, 191.

  Robert came and Collection of Allen Rosenbaum.

  “devastated” VR, 261.

  He was an effective curator John McKendry memorial service, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, February 10, 1976.

  CHAPTER 15. STOP PRESS

  [The Sept drew] Grace Jones as told to Paul Morley, I’ll Never Write My Memoirs (New York: Gallery, 2015), 123.

  It was a time IDR.

  We were never TBF, location 120.

  I loved the Sept! APL.

  “Halston and Loulou” AWD, 16.

  [My father has] IFA.

  5 am—leaving VR, 307.

  “[Ricardo] can’t live” Ibid., 308.

  The Christmas [before] MG, 180.

  …I’ll never get VR, 310−311.

  CHAPTER 16. WEDDING OF THE DECADE

  “It’s all from” LLF.

  It was as BS.

  I’ve never seen LLF, 81.

  By what magic YSL, location 6344.

  Loulou and I had LEE.

  We were both DCC.

  The only way LEE.

  I decided that IDR.

  It’s so much more fun L&T.

  Thadée’s desertion was Alice Rawsthorn, Yves Saint Laurent: A Biography (New York: Doubleday, 2006), 155.

  Not only had MG, 180-181.

  [Clara] is very strong ABY.

  Went to lunch AWD, 63-64.

  Pierre and Yves pictured MG, 182.

  The ball would YSL, location 6355.

  I invited my TBF, location 242.

  The day before ALI.

  You had no Hebe Dorsey, “Loulou et Thadée Klossowski ont fait la fête,” Paris Vogue, A
ugust 1977.

  Oh, I haven’t thought FB.

  I remember that night TBF, location 244.

  [For] our honeymoon “Best Summer Ever,” WWDscoop, May 2006.

  Chapter 17. LA VIE EN COUPLE

  “almost-boyfriend” AWD, 6.

  You know, back then Duels: Yves Saint Laurent-Karl Lagerfeld, une guerre en dentelles, directed by Stephen Kopecky, Et la Suite, France 5, 2015.

  Loulou has a Taki Theodoracopulos, “High Life: Winners All,” Spectator, November 26, 1977.

  “Everything is posed” YSL, location 8819.

  Loulou and I TBF, location 245.

  I’ve never liked Ibid., location 260.

  I’ve always been Ibid., location 259.

  I have become ABY.

  I think that TBF, 259.

  a million pills AWD, 364.

  I met a Edmund White, Inside a Pearl: My Years In Paris (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014), 110−111.

  Chapter 18. BIJOUX DE FANTAISIE

  Only when Chanel Stella Blum and Diana Vreeland, Inventive Clothes 1909−1939: The 10s, the 20s, the 30s (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1973), 15.

  Accessories barely existed PDU.

  I like the French term ALF.

  Style is taste LDF.

  We tango between G. Y. Dryansky, “Saint Laurent All the Way,” Vogue, January 1980.

  I think Saint Laurent Bronwyn Cosgrave, “Loulou Remembered,” vogue.co.uk, November 7, 2011.

  I have a horror YSL, location 5083.

  In his voluminous Patrick MauriÈs, Maison Goossens: Bijoux et objets haute couture (Paris: La Martinière, 2014), 26, 29.

  Chapter 19. LES CLANS

  The Yves posse Anthony Haden-Guest, “For Yves, Art Was Food for the Soul,” Guardian, January 17, 2009.

  Andy and I HT 202, 203, 205.

  Of course, you Jean-Pierre de Lucovich, “Yves’ People: Les intimes,” Bravo Yves! (published by the House of Saint Laurent in January 1982 to commemorate its twentieth anniversary).

  There were the MG, 107.

  He doesn’t know YSL, location 5281.

  He hates being Ibid., location 5800.

  He’s a person LFD, 13.

  When we were MG, 107-108.

  A blue carpet PDC.

  I’m fairly consistent DTH, 78, 80, 81.

  Yves thought [Château Gabriel] Robert Murphy, The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent & Pierre Bergé (New York: Vendome, 2009), 153.

  If you forgot Paul L. Underwood, “The Originals,” T: The New York Times Style Magazine, December 3, 2006.

  Yves saw himself TBF, location 207.

  Yves [understood] that LFD, 13.

  [For me,] the trouble TBF, location 250.

  “affair with a” Maureen Orth, “Ciao, Tina,” Vanity Fair, April 1992.

  I wasn’t part YSL, location 4477.

  With you, Madison LAY, 72-73, 26-27, 73.

  CHAPTER 20. MUSE?

  I believe women Diana Vreeland, D.V. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984), 4.

  Oh, muse, muse TFC, 236.

  I thought, Nobody’s 4TY.

  Maybe a genuine TFC, 236.

  Yves likes to ALF.

  [Yves] has a TBF, location 146.

  For a couturier LF.

  I think I TBF, location 146.

  Yves is surrounded DOD.

  She saw everything MCJ.

  To me, a muse “Loulou de La Falaise,” Telegraph, November 6, 2011.

  Yes, I suppose TEC.

  Loulou brought the VRL.

  The relationship between PBO.

  Loulou was to Yves Véronique Lorelle, “Loulou de La Falaise, mannequin, créatrice de mode et figure du chic français,” Le Monde, November 8, 2011.

  Yves was up PBO.

  I felt that Mme. Bricard’s CDI, 27 102, 111.

  She was… one Bettina Ballard, In My Fashion (New York: David McKay,1960), 235, 244.

  Mizza was Proust’s Marie-France Pochna, Christian Dior: The Biography, trans. Joanna Savill (New York: Overlook, 2008), 252.

  I started to work BHL.

  M. Saint Laurent Millionaires, High Society, Program 3 (Central Television, 1994).

  Two days later BHL.

  Everyone was there TBF, location 100.

  She had the courage Ibid., location 260.

  “continue to exercise” stgfashiondesign.sydneyinstitute.wikispaces.net/file/view/ChristianDior.pdf.

  I made a Papers of Sir Cecil Beaton, St. John’s College Library, Cambridge.

  You can’t take FI.

  CHAPTER 21. THE FIAT GUY

  In the 1980s TBL, 216−218, 220−222.

  “He’s written four” AWD, 1069.

  [Diane would] jump DVF, 187.

  I was just Ibid., 184−185.

  “like a marriage” Ibid., 197.

  Loulou fell in love Ibid., 196.

  Elkann had had Ibid., 194, 195, 196.

  [Diane] could have Ibid., 196.

  “So goes Alain” Ibid., 196.

  my good friend Diane von Furstenberg, A Signature Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998), 85.

  Nanni and Maud Alain Elkann, Misguided Lives, trans. William Weaver (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989), 184, 152, 78, 137, 48, 49, 184, 79.

  Chapter 22. LES GIRLS SAINT LAURENT

  Yves wasn’t especially drawn LLE.

  He worked mostly LAF.

  I think it’s a bit Ibid.

  I think when TBF, location 211.

  He doesn’t like Mounia and Denise Dubois-Jallais, Princesse Mounia (Paris: Robert Laffont, 1987), 10.

  The black models’ hair was YSL, location 6103.

  CHAPTER 23. LADY LIBERTINE

  Don’t say that ALF.

  The other night TIO.

  [they’re] terribly into ALS.

  If you dress up TIO.

  When I see there’s danger MM.

  I feel rather ALF.

  The walls of John Loring, The Tiffany Gourmet Cookbook (New York: Doubleday, 1992), 80.

  I don’t like things Suzanne Slesin, Stafford Cliff and Daniel Rozensztroch, The International Book of Lofts (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1986), 105.

  I knew “the countess” COC.

  I moved back COC.

  CHAPTER 24. SLOGGING THROUGH THE NINETIES

  I usually go away Christopher Petkanas, “Going Their Way,” W, July 15−22, 1983.

  It probably tells you TIL.

  Yves is very TEC

  “that kind of clinic” YSL, location 9545, 9549.

  “Assassins!” Ibid., location 9546.

  Everything comes from Franz-Olivier Gisbert and Janie Samet, “Yves Saint Laurent: Trente ans de gloire, trente ans d’angoisse,” Le Figaro, July 15, 1991.

  Pierre Bergé is JSN.

  CHAPTER 25. AIN’T LAURENT WITHOUT YVES

  In 1989, Mariga RTS.

  She drank to MHF, 14, 198.

  She’d have been Ibid., 92.

  This idea of suffering TIL.

  Nobody is forced Susannah Frankel, “Being Karl Lagerfeld: What’s It Like Being the Most Powerful Man in Fashion?” Independent, November 4, 2011.

  [Yves would] come in LAF.

  I learned about FI.

  I got an amazing Vanessa Lau, “The Brilliantly Uncool Alber Elbaz,” Women’s Wear Daily, November 1, 2010.

  I haven’t had any cosmetic DOD.

  The first time ALI.

  “Cross[ed] swords” Suzy Menkes, “Old Guard and New Cross Swords at Saint Laurent,” International Herald Tribune, October 3, 2000.

  Being at Yves “Tom Ford Tells All,” advocate.com, November 9, 2009.

  I think that TBL, 222−223.

  Weary of fighting Béatrice Peyrani, Pierre Bergé, le faiseur d’étoiles (Paris: Pygmalion, 2011), 332, 333.

  CHAPTER 26. LOULOU, INC.

  If you’ve worked FAL.

  I’m not very FI.

  [Yves] is very Miles Socha, “Loulou’s Back in Town,” Women’s Wear Daily, January 10, 2003.

&nbs
p; Anything can inspire DTH, 78.

  Creativity is like DOD.

  I make all LF.

  I’m very independent DOD.

  [Fernando] was the FSF.

  CHAPTER 27. FINAL STRETCH

  “Sometimes I don’t” Saint Laurent, directed by Bertrand Bonello, Sony, 2014.

  “sexual violence” LAY, 39.

  CHAPTER 28. IN EXTREMIS

  405 Bergé’s friends—many TIL.

  I went to have lunch PBO.

  For [my mother] “Anna Klossowski raconte sa mère,” Gala, October 21, 2014.

  We have lost PBO.

  CHAPTER 30. AFTERLIFE

  “le ‘jardinier des Klhoé Dominguez, “Pierre Bergé s’est marié avec ‘le jardinier des milliardaires,’” Madame Figaro, May 4, 2017.

  Thadée’s a kind TFC, 237.

  He fell in L&T.

  We were never DCC.

  I always had the feeling Ibid.

  The tragedy of DJL.

  At the same IDR.

  I rediscovered Loulou DJL.

  Rereading the diary IDR.

  Life has its ALS.

  I feel guilty APL.

  I like everything Virginie Mouzat, “Betty Catroux, l’ange de la nuit,” Vanity Fair (French edition), July 2014.

  Poor Yves APL.

  Smile, laugh BS.

  I saw it TBF, location 239.

  I revolted against DOD.

  I thought [“muse”] LFL.

  Today I like DOD.

  I became his 4TY.

  Now that Saint Laurent LFO.

  There is nobody PBO.

  She was an influence TBF, 146.

  NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS

  “pseudo writer” “PORTRAIT. Banier: Le Photographe et les vieilles dames,” L’Obs, December 23, 2008.

  excoriated online Joan Juliet Buck, The Price of Illusion: A Memoir (New York: Atria, 2017), 384.

  “a leading proponent” Christopher Mason, “At Home With: Christopher Gibbs; A Parting Embrace for a Lifetime’s Quirks,” New York Times, September 21, 2000.

  a dyke on a bike “Clare Balding Complaint over AA Gill Column Upheld,” Guardian, February 17, 2010.

  “incubated in [the]” A. A. Gill, “Rote 66,” Vanity Fair, August 2003.

  The guy’s no YSL, location 8995.

  “the Host-est” of Keisha McLean, “The Many Faces of Nicky Lane,” Women’s Wear Daily, May 13, 1975.

  “a witty essay” John L. Hess, “De Gustibus,” New York Times, August 14, 1973.

  “great culture of” Ruth Kennedy, “Author in Profile: Charles Lysaght,” newsfour.ie, October 11, 2013.

  “was the first” Ciara Dwyer, “The Life and Times of Brighid,” Irish Independent, October 22, 2006.

  “boys” Palash Ghosh, “The Strange Case of Frédéric Mitterrand: France’s Most Famous (Alleged) Pedophile,” ibtimes.com, October 12, 2013.

 

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