Alicia Drake

The Beautiful Fall

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In 1950s Paris, Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld were friends, the rising stars of the fashion world. But by the late sixties the city was invaded by a new mood of liberation and hedonism, and dominated by intrigue, infidelities, addiction and parties. Each designer created his own mesmerising world, so vivid and seductive that people were drawn to the power, charisma and fame, and it was to make them bitter rivals. The Beautiful Fall is a dazzling exposé of an era and the story of the two men who were its essence and who remain its most singular survivors.
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655 printed pages
Publication year
2012
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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

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