Alicia Drake

The Beautiful Fall

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  • Shathahas quoted4 years ago
    Yves could exorcise certain of his demons. Yves nearly burnt himself alive – as in all exorcisms. But it is not Jacques who took him there. It is the profound nature of Yves. Jacques was only the instrument.’

    And indeed long after the affair was over, the idea of Jacques continued to be a source of pain that Yves could exploit. ‘I saw Jacques today,’ he would say for years afterwards, inventing the lie with which to torment Pierre Bergé.
  • George Thomashas quoted6 years ago
    there were also hints of the power Yves could wield through this shyness.
  • Tatiana Raojeehas quoted6 years ago
    15 September 1982, after six months of seething gossip and stealth, the announcement came: Karl Lagerfeld was going to design for Chanel. Twenty-eight years after he had stood for that one precious moment on a level with Yves Mathieu-Saint-Laurent and his shining destiny, Karl had finally caught up. He was forty-nine years old
  • Polina Fiedorowiczhas quoted6 years ago
    shrink from contact with the others
  • Polina Fiedorowiczhas quoted6 years ago
    vying for her favour by
  • Polina Fiedorowiczhas quoted6 years ago
    the looms began to whir again.
  • Polina Fiedorowiczhas quoted6 years ago
    passive to that exten
  • ALEXANDRA VEGAhas quoted6 years ago
    How ’ya gonna keep ’em down on the farm (after they’ve seen Paree)?

    Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young, 1919
  • Harold Mirandahas quoted6 years ago
    Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale
  • Conejo Literariohas quoted6 years ago
    ‘Elegance,’ said the breathless teenage Yves, ‘is a dress too dazzling to dare to wear twice.’
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