Would you follow? She is not au courant, She is Second French Empire. I am fascinated by all the details of her dress. Take a moment and enlarge the image for a better look. Do you stop to take a second or third look?
Can you judge a book by its cover? Can you afford not to? It always interests me when books are released for the European/UK market with jacket covers so very different from the cover for US release.
Witness THE PRIVATE WORLD OF YVES SAINT LAURENT & PIERRE BERGE.
COVER I
UK/ European
“The quintessence of very grand and highly personal French taste.”
~Le Figaro
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II
“As he did with fashion, Yves seized at one moment in time, a taste that was in the air, only to show his mastery. During the 1970s exoticism and Marrakech were currents in the air and St. Laurent became the authority. He was interested in Art Deco before it became fashionable, even before Andy Warhol and Karl Lagerfeld . . . St Laurent’s and Bergé’s taste is an expression of a culture and is always a story. When they decorated a house it was no longer an ordinary house: it became a story to tell.” ~Jacques Grange
Which do you prefer? Let me know & the book is yours.
& Yes, of course there is a slight hitch-
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Notoriously shy, the designer and Bergé lived in luxury, surrounded by incomparable collections of furniture and art. From the serene interiors of their apartment on the Rue Babylone to the incandescent beauty of the Villa Majorelle in Marrakech, Bergé and Saint Laurent’s sensibilities come alive. Taken after Saint Laurent’s death in 2008, Ivan Terestchenko’s photographs capture these exquisite surroundings in full, showcasing nineteenth-century French décor, important paintings by modern and Romantic artists, and masterpieces of furniture, sculpture, and silver ranging from the Renaissance to the Art Deco era. Though the homes presented here are now empty, The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé is a testament to a rare union of passion, elegance, and supreme connoisseurship. (from Amazon)
I am constantly amazed at the quality & content of fellow writers of the blogging world- I follow le style et la matiere religiously- What a beautiful place. Illuminating. Read her evocative story about the book covers here & the cover in France with the French text. Merci.
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