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No one interested in fashion, style, or the high-flying intrigues of café society will want to miss the exuberantly entertaining oral biography Loulou & Yves: The Untold Story of Loulou de La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent, by Christopher Petkanas.Loulou de La Falaise (1947-2011) was one of the most important women in the history of twentieth-century fashion, a brilliant iconoclast descending in a direct line from Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli. Born into a family of aesthetes, she was the daughter of a French nobleman and a British mother, Maxime Birley, a tornado of creative flamboyance. In 1968, Loulou's Bohemian spirit, coupled with her fearless sense of style, caught the attention of Yves Saint Laurent (1936-2008)—the most influential designer of his time. Thus began an exquisitely intimate and sometimes painful personal and professional relationship, unequaled in the annals of artistic collaboration: for thirty years, until his...Pages of Loulou & Yves :