Loulou de la Falaise (born 1948) is a fashion muse and designer associated with Yves Saint-Laurent.
Her mother Maxime de la Falaise was a noted fashionista of her day and a model for Schiaparelli. Loulou therefore grew up in the world of high fashion. After a short-lived first marriage to the Desmond FitzGerald, 29th Knight of Glin, she moved to Paris and became the friend and creative partner of Yves Saint Laurent. According to The Independent, ...
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Loulou de la Falaise (born 1948) is a fashion muse and designer associated with Yves Saint-Laurent.
Her mother Maxime de la Falaise was a noted fashionista of her day and a model for Schiaparelli. Loulou therefore grew up in the world of high fashion. After a short-lived first marriage to the Desmond FitzGerald, 29th Knight of Glin, she moved to Paris and became the friend and creative partner of Yves Saint Laurent. According to The Independent, she helped inspire his 1966 female tuxedo Le Smoking and his see-through blouses. The designer and his former muse collaborated until his death.
De la Falaise now runs Maison de Loulou, a Left Bank boutique in Paris.
Born Louise Vava Lucia Henriette de la Falaise, she is the daughter of Count Alain de la Falaise, a French writer and translator, and his first wife, the former Maxime Birley, a model of the Fifties, then a cookbook author and a newspaper columnist. Her maternal grandfather was the portrait painter Sir Oswald Birley, and her...
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