Loulou de la Falaise obituary | Life and style | The Guardian
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Free-spirited accessories designer known for her wild style and her lengthy collaboration with Yves Saint Laurent
The way Loulou de la Falaise told it, she had been baptised by her mother with a dab of the Schiaparelli perfume Shocking in lieu of water; or even bathed in the scent at birth. That might not have been literally true – Loulou was born in severely austere postwar Britain (in Sussex), to which her mother, the bohemian Maxime de la Falaise, had returned briefly from Paris. But Maxime, who knew Elsa Schiaparelli and later modelled for her house, certainly wanted her Anglo-Irish-French daughter to grow up fashionable and a free spirit. Which she did: Loulou, who has died aged 63 after a long…
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