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BRYAN FERRY AT PALAIS DES CONGRES

Bryan Ferry will be back in Paris this week, performing at the Palais des Congres.

See Neil Tennant on Ferry’s Another Time, Another Place album art.

BRYAN FERRY

Saturday, June 2, at 8 pm.

Palais des Congres

2 place de la Porte Maillot, 17th, Paris.

From top: Bryan Ferry’s Another Time, Another Place (1974)—photographed by Eric Boman at Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles—featured Manolo Blahnik in the background in green Oxford bags; Olympia (2010) cover. Images courtesy Bryan Ferry, Island Records, and Virgin Records.

LOULOU DE LA FALAISE

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“This book is an oral biography of Paris fashion between the glittering years when Loulou was the light between all the characters.” — André Leon Talley

Christopher Petkanis LOULOU & YVES: THE UNTOLD STORY OF LOULOU DE LA FALAISE AND THE HOUSE OF SAINT LAURENT is a massive oral history centered around the life and times of YSL muse and employee Loulou de la Falaise.

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Among the voices heard from in the book are those of Cecil Beaton, Diana Vreeland, Thadée Klossowski, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Hubert de Givenchy, Manolo Blahnik, Maxime de la Falaise, Diane von Furstenberg, Marianne Faithfull, Nicky Haslam, Elsa Peretti, Betty Catroux, John Richardson, Kenneth Jay Lane, Alber Elbaz, Christian Louboutin, Grace Coddington, Ben Brantley, Jane Ormsby Gore, Bruce Chatwin, Amy Fine Collins, Patrick Bauchau, Lady Annabel Goldsmith, Pierre Bergé, Talley, and Loulou herself.

See: us.macmillan.com/book

Top: Marina Schiano, Loulou de la Falaise, Yves Saint Laurent, and Steve Rubell at the Opium launch party, New York City, 1978.

Above: Thadée Klossowski, Paloma Picasso, and YSL. Polaroid by Andy Warhol.

Below: YSL and de la Falaise.

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