Loulou & Yves

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  Contents

  Cover

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Epigraph

  La Falaise and Birley Family Tree

  Introduction

  1. Sir Oswald and Lady Birley

  2. A Tribe Called Falaise

  3. Rogue Countess

  4. Les Mis

  5. A Precocious Itinerary: Sussex to Gstaad, New York to Provence

  6. The Knight of Glin

  7. “She’s Married to a Fairy, so What’s Her Problem?”

  8. Donald Cammell, Sex Addict

  9. Hippie de Luxe Londonienne

  10. The Years Between, 1968–1972

  11. Loulou & Yves

  12. Anne-Marie Muñoz, Mater Dolorosa

  13. Thadée—or Ricardo?

  14. Glue-Gunning Ahead of the Curve

  15. STOP PRESS

  16. Wedding of the Decade

  17. La Vie en Couple

  18. Bijoux de Fantaisie

  19. Les Clans

  20. Muse?

  21. The Fiat Guy

  22. Les Girls Saint Laurent

  23. Lady Libertine

  24. Slogging Through the Nineties

  25. Ain’t Laurent Without Yves

  26. Loulou, Inc.

  27. Final Stretch

  28. In Extremis

  29. “The Second Death of Saint Laurent”

  30. Afterlife

  Notes on the Contributors

  Notes

  Bibliography

  Acknowledgments

  Permissions

  Index of Contributors

  Also by Christopher Petkanas

  About the Author

  Copyright

  LOULOU & YVES. Copyright © 2018 by Christopher Petkanas. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Petkanas, Christopher, author.

  Title: Loulou & Yves : the untold story of Loulou de La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent / Christopher Petkanas.

  Other titles: Loulou and Yves

  Description: New York : St. Martin’s Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2017049574| ISBN 9781250051691 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781250161420 (ebook)

  Subjects: LCSH: Fashion designers—France—Biography. | La Falaise, Loulou de. | Saint Laurent, Yves. | Costume design—France—History—20th century. | Fashion—France—History—20th century.

  Classification: LCC TT505.A1 P47 2018 | DDC 746.9/2092 [B]—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017049574

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  First Edition: April 2018

  Frontispiece: Backstage at the InterContinental hotel, Paris, 1982.

  © Guy Marineau.