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Loulou de La Falaise ((:lu.lu də la fa.lɛz); 4 May 1948 – 5 November 2011) was a fashion muse and designer of fashion, accessories and jewelry associated with Yves Saint Laurent.〔(Dècès de Loulou de la Falaise )〕 Author Judith Thurman, writing in ''The New Yorker'' magazine, called La Falaise "the quintessential Rive Gauche haute bohémienne". Daughter of an Anglo-Irish fashion model and a French marquis, La Falaise was a close friend and creative partner of Yves Saint Laurent (YSL). According to ''The Independent'', she helped inspire his 1966 women's tuxedo ''Le Smoking'' and his see-through blouses.〔Eyre, Hermione. "The chic parade". The Independent (London). 14 April 2007. FindArticles.com. Retrieved 21 November 2007. ()〕 After more than three decades designing jewelry and accessories for Saint Laurent, La Falaise launched her own fashion business, designing ready-to-wear, costume jewelry, and accessories, which were retailed in the U.S. as well as two Loulou de La Falaise shops in Paris. The family's actual surname is ''Le Bailly'', though members have used ''Le Bailly de La Falaise'', referring to an ancestral estate, since the mid 19th century; it is typically abbreviated to ''de La Falaise''.〔As Loulou de La Falaise's father's elder brother, the Marquis de Coudraye, told ''The New York Times'' (7 October 1925), "My patronymic name is Le Bailly, but... I use the name de La Falaise because it is one of the great-grandfather branches of the Le Bailly family. De La Falaise is the only existing branch of that family today. So this should be my entire name: James Henry Le Bailly de La Falaise, Marquis de La Coudraye".〕 The title held by the head of the family, Marquis de La Coudraye, was granted, by an 1876 act of succession, to the younger son of Pacôme-François Le Bailly, Seigneur de La Falaise, and his wife, Pauline-Louise-Victoire de Loynes, daughter of Denis, Marquis de La Coudraye. ==Family== Christened Louise Vava Lucia Henriette Le Bailly de La Falaise and born in England, she was the eldest child and only daughter of Alain, Count de La Falaise (1903–1977), a French writer, translator and publisher, and his second wife, the former Maxime Birley, an Anglo-Irish fashion model, whom photographer Cecil Beaton once told, "You are the only English woman I know who manages to be really chic in really hideous clothes".〔Father as marquis noted in his obituary, published in ''The New York Times'' on 11 October 1977, accessed on 5 November 2011〕〔Father's full name, Alain R. Le Bailly de La Falaise, is cited on his September 1946 marriage license, accessed on ancestry.com on 7 November 2011〕〔Her father's first wife, married in 1931 and later divorced, was Margaret Webb, an American.〕〔Alicia Drake, ''The Beautiful Fall'' (Hachette Digital, 2007), retrieved via Google Books on 7 November 2011〕 Three of her christening names honored relations: Louise (her father's elder sister, who died as a teenager); Vava (one of the names of her maternal grandmother, Lady Birley); and Henriette (the name of her paternal grandmother, Henriette Hennessy, Comtesse Alain Hocquart de Turtot). La Falaise was allegedly baptised not with holy water but with Shocking, the scent by fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, her mother's employer. La Falaise's maternal grandfather was portrait painter Sir Oswald Birley, and an uncle was Mark Birley (1930–2007), restaurateur and founder of the London nightclub, "Annabel's". Another uncle, her father's elder brother, was Henri de La Falaise, (1898–1972), film director and third husband of American actress Gloria Swanson. Her paternal grandfather was a three-time French Olympic gold medallist in fencing, Louis Gabriel de La Falaise.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Georges de la Falaise Biography and Olympic Results )〕 Loulou de La Falaise had one sibling, Alexis Richard Dion Oswald Le Bailly de La Falaise,(1948-2004), a furniture designer, who appeared in the Andy Warhol film ''Tub Girls''.〔 Upon their parents' divorce in 1950—following Maxime de La Falaise's infidelities and a French court's declaration of her as an unfit mother—Loulou and her brother went to live with foster families until she was seven.〔〔Alicia Drake, ''The Beautiful Fall'' (Hachette Digital, 2007), retrieved via Google Books on 5 November 2011〕 After that, La Falaise was enrolled in English boarding schools, and "her school holidays were shared between mother, father, and the second foster family".〔 She attended a boarding school in Switzerland as well as the Lycée Français de New York, though was expelled from each due to her rebellious nature. Her niece, Lucie Le Bailly de La Falaise (born 19 February 1973), a model, is the wife of Marlon Richards, son of Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg. Her nephew, Daniel Le Bailly de La Falaise (born 6 September 1970), is a professional chef and food writer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=18 November 2010: A French Gourmet Adventure )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Daniel de la Falaise's Carrot Tarragon Soup )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Loulou de la Falaise」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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