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Model & Actress
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Surrealist Artist
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Fashion Muse & Jewellery Designer
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Nicky Samuel meets Loulou de la Falaise in Paris, January 1972
“And will it be lamb for lunch?” I asked Yves St. Laurent teasingly.
He smiled benignly. “I think not today. Perhaps on your next visit. En tout cas, ma petite, there is someone Bill Willis wishes you should meet. Bill, will you take Nicky up to see Loulou? Elle vous attend.”
Which was how I first met Loulou de la Falaise.
It was a strange meeting, because half way up the stairs, Bill turned to me with an unusually serious face. “Now listen baby, whatever you do, don’t mention Donald Cammell!”
“But why -”
“She left her husband for Donald – just like you, baby! And now she lives here and works for Yves.”
So that was what I was meant to have in common with Loulou. Going to bed with Donald Cammell! And Donald had never even mentioned her name to me! I felt furious with him, and terribly jealous of Loulou.
That jealousy vanished the moment I saw her. Although Loulou had been ill, she looked devastatingly beautiful, and full of life. She greeted me in a very friendly manner, and said that she would be up the next day, and would go clubbing with us. “That is, if you don’t mind the sort of places Bill likes!”