#maxime de la falaise

[eyesfullofmoon]

"Model Maxime de la Falaise wearing Christian Dior’s ‘Mozart’ dress. Photographed in the music room of Madame Georges Menier. American Vogue, 1 April 1950."

Photographed by Norman Parkinson.

[fawnvelveteen]

"Cocktail Dress" by John Chillingworth - 4th September 1954: A cocktail dress and waist length fitted jacket in cream satin made by Jacques Fath. 

Falaise Collection" by John Chillingworth - An outfit designed for the English market by Maxime de la Falaise. The model wears a pale tangerine sweater and tie with apricot red tapered doeskin pants. 

Original Publication: Picture Post

[chicinsilk]

US Vogue April 15, 1950

Maxime de la Falaise in a sleek Moygashel linen shirt dress, by B.H.Wragge. White cowhide leather belt from Schaffer. Gloves by Crescendoe. Pseudo Pearl Length by Elgin American. Angled black straw hat, Lilly Daché. Lipstick, "Cherry" by Houbigant.

Maxime de la Falaise dans une robe chemisier épurée en lin Moygashel, par B.H.Wragge. Ceinture en cuir de vachette blanc de Schaffer. Gants par Crescendoe. Longueur de pseudo perles par Elgin American. Chapeau de paille noire à angle, Lilly Daché. Rouge à lèvres, "Cherry" par Houbigant.

Photo Horst P. Horst vogue archive

[onegentlemansescapades]

Maxime de la Falaise wearing a Charles James gown in a Modess ad / Ph. by Cecil Beaton 1950

[jacquesdemys]

I would like to end 2022 by sharing five six of the most hilarious anecdotes I read in fashion (related) books this year. (also... find me on GoodReads!)

1) Corey Tippin realizes Karl Lagerfeld is a fucking freak. (The Beautiful Fall by Alicia Drake, 2006)

2) The guest who refused to leave when Bernard Buffet’s 30th-birthdy party orgy was about to start. (Bernard Buffet: The Invention of the Modern Mega-Artist by Nicholas Foulkes, 2016)

3) Pierre Cardin’s stress-induced sweeping compulsion. (Pierre Cardin: The Man who Became a Label by Richard Morais, 1991)

4) André Leon Talley afraid of Maxime de la Falaise serving him dog-placenta soup. (Loulou & Yves by Christopher Petkanas, 2018)

4) Cristobal Balenciaga sees a former model wearing an outfit by André Courrèges and comments on the outfit... (The Master of Us All: Balenciaga, His Workrooms, His World by Mary Blume, 2013)

5) Patti D’Arbanville, Corey Tippin, Donna Jordan, et al. trying to get Helmut Berger’s attention at Yves & Pierre’s place (The Beautiful Fall by Alicia Drake, 2006)

6) Guy Bourdin almost setting Karl Lagerfeld’s house on fire. (Karl: No Regrets by Patrick Hourcade, 2021)

I’m excited to discover 2023′s anecdotes!! 

[blackswaneuroparedux]

“Muse” est un mot qui me fait rigoler, parce que personne ne sait ce qu’il signifie. C’est l’influence d’une attitude, je suppose, mais le mot est complètement faux, il ne semble pas faire partie de la vie réelle. Alors que, bien au contraire, mon influence sur Yves relève entièrement de la vie réelle, l’amie qui travaille avec lui et qui, de temps en temps, lui dit: “Ne sois pas aussi bête, Yves.”

- LouLou de la Falaise

Loulou de la Falaise was model, designer, and more well known as Yves Saint Laurent’s long-running muse for his fashion designs.

Cecil Beaton famously said she was the only English woman he knew who could be “really chic in really hideous clothes” - de la Falaise was part of high society. But she was also always a hard worker that became a fashion icon. She became the quintessential Rive Gauche haute bohémienne.

Born on 4 May 1948 in England, Louise Vava Lucia Henriette de la Falaise had an Irish mother, Maxime Birley, Elsa Schiaparelli's favourite model, and a French father, Alain de la Falaise. She was the granddaughter of the artist Oswald Birley, official painter to the Royal Court. From the age of 7, Loulou de La Falaise studied at a boarding school in England, then in Switzerland. She spent her teenage years in London, then the capital of pop culture, and then became a fashion editor before following her mother to New York in the 1960s. She then posed for fashion photos and designed prints for Halston. In New York she was firm friends with Andy Warhol and immersed herself in the fashion scene there.

She didn’t have much luck in relationships. She was first married at 18 years old to an Irish aristocrat, Desmond Fitzgerald, from whom she soon separated. In 1977, Loulou de la Falaise married Thadée Klossowski de Rola, son of the painter Balthus, a marriage organised by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé on a small island in the Bois de Boulogne. She has a daughter, Anna, born in 1986, of whom Yves Saint Laurent was godfather.

Yves Saint Laurent once said of his muse, “Loulou de la Falaise's real talent, apart from her undeniable professional qualities, was her charm. She had the strange power of the gift of lightness, mixed with an irreproachable acuity of her look on fashion. Intuitive, innate, unique.” Loulou de la Falaise met him in 1968, at a tea party given by his stylist friend, Fernando Sanchez. She joined Yves Saint Laurent in 1972 at the designer's request and quickly became one of his closest collaborators. Loulou de La Falaise, who had a passion for colour and a gift for eccentricity, remained at his side for 30 years, creating jewellery and hats for the haute couture house.

While many consider her Yves’s ‘muse’, she was much more than that, and became head designer for accessories. She was literally his taste check, someone he could depend on to brainstorm concepts with, finalise colour  selections. She said once, "Accessories have an important role in our stressful lives. If you go out to dinner and you don't have time to go home and change, you can take off your jacket and put on a piece of jewellery," She loved rare woods and brightly coloured stones, giant enamel flowers and had hearts fashioned from rock crystal, her lucky material. "The important thing is to invent yourself," she used to say.

After Yves Saint Laurent’s death in 2002, Loulou de la Falaise launched her own brand and collaborated with different groups by creating jewellery lines. In 2011, she created a line of jewellery exclusively for the Majorelle garden boutique in Marrakech, the garden that also housed Yves Saint Laurent's ashes. Loulou de la Falaise passed away 2011.

Photo: Loulou de la Falaise and Yves Saint Laurent at a party, 1978.

[ilcercatoredicolori]

Maxime de la Falaise photographiée par Alexander Liberman ,1953

[70s80sandbeyond]

Maxime de la Falaise in the 1940s and ’50s

[vagabondcollector]

The “Mozart” gown, from Dior’s Spring Line, c 1950

Worn by Maxime de la Falaise

[runlela]

1er novembre 2022

Adieu Saint-Pierre, bonjour Saint-Leu !

On emménage ce-jour dans notre nouveau logement au 56 impasse de la falaise. Une maison INCROYABLE avec vue sur mer (et son coucher de soleil), piscine, table de ping-pong, fléchettes, chambre immense, beau jardin et plein de poules !

Une coloc' de 5 personnes mais avec beaucoup d'ami.e.s de passage. Il n'est pas rare qu'on soit une petite dizaine à errer dans cette vaste demeure. On ne devrait pas manquer de place.

Gilles, Maxime et Astrid sont nos colocataires officiels, Zoé, Heloïse, Marceau, Louison et Mégane sont de passage. Tous les soirs, une personne fait le repas pour tout le monde, c'est super chouette.

Nous voilà Saint-Leusiens !

Thicoco

[bouxmounir]

La saison 2022 débarque à Dieppe Normandie Tourisme

La saison 2022 débarque à Dieppe Normandie Tourisme

Par Maxime Cartier Publié le 4 juin 22 à 17:09 Les Informations Dieppoises Voir mon actu Suivez ce média Les deux offices de tourisme de Dieppe (Seine-Maritime) Normandie tourisme et Falaises-du-Talou unissent leurs forces et fusionnent. (© Les Informations Dieppoises) lundi 30 mai, Dieppe (Seine Maritime) Normandie tourisme vous présente sa saison 2022. En plus d’une fusion avec le ‘Office de…

[a-state-of-bliss]

Vogue UK Sept 1949 - Maxime De La Falaise by Horst

[robertocustodioart]

Maxime de la Falaise by Norman Parkinson 1950 

[chicinsilk]

A model is wearing Ben Kahn's gray mink blouson over a satin shirt by Maxime de la Falaise, with cuffed flannel trousers by Emmanuelle Khanh, a suede envelope handbag by Bagatelle, and gray gloves, also wearing aviator sunglasses. 

Vogue September 1, 1972

(Photo by Kourken Pakchanian/Condé Nast via Getty Images)

[serafino-finasero]

Evelyne Greig and Maxime de la Falaise in bathing suits and shade hats by Jacques Heim -- Vogue, 1935 | photo Horst P. Horst (German-American, 1906--1999)

[cherry7up]