Saturday, May 2, 2009

In Memorium

Maxime de La Falaise

(1922-2009)

Maxime de la Falaise, a celebrated fashion model and artists’ muse of the mid-20th century who was later a designer, food writer and the matriarch of a three-generation clan of international couture models, died of natural causes on Thursday at her home in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France.
She was 86.


Read her full obituary in The New York Times









"The only truly chic Englishwoman of her generation."
- Cecil Beaton
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