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Alicia Drake
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The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
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2006
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I Love You Too Much
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2018
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A Shopper's Guide to Paris Fashion
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2000
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The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
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I was living in Paris in the 6ème arrondissement, near to the Jardin du Luxembourg. I have five children, which meant I spent a lot of my days walking. I walked back and forth across the jardin every day, several times a day, through the different seasons. I saw children coming out of school, hanging out in the jardin. I saw them playing football on the dalle, I saw them getting dropped off at...
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"Really amazing debut novel, a secret Paris you never see as a tourist, the real story behind the chic privilege. The details are so so interesting but it's the emotion of it, the profound story of a little boy that makes it top tier -- it wrecked..."
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“Paris will never change, not for you, not for me. Paris doesn’t care that you are dying inside; it will always be beautiful, untouchable, aloof, unmoved by you and your pathetic fate.” I Love You Too Much was very sad, very tragic, but also..." Read more of this review » |
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“Corey was hanging out down by the port one afternoon with Karl and Jacques when a bus-load of american tourists drove by, and in a moment of clarity Corey suddenly perceived Karl in the light of reality rather than through the kaleidoscope of fashion: the tourists were staring open-mouthed through the bus windows, ice creams held in mid-air, gawping at the apparition that was Karl. Jacques was driving the mobylette and Karl sat behind riding side-saddle dressed in hot pants, long strands of pearls and dark glasses; he was wielding a raw frankfurter straight from the packet in one hand and a bottle of coca-cola in the other. I remember thinking "I am with this total freak," says Corey.”
― The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
― The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
“It deified a certain posture: static, cream-shouldered, jutting hips, cigarette poised between lipstick and eternity.”
― The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
― The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
“And opposite Jacques sat Karl Lagerfeld, German ready-to-wear designer, lavish in wing collar and monocle, a fashion force in the making.”
― The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
― The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
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