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Paloma Picasso

Paloma Picasso portrait in Malaga, Spain

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Extract from "Nicky Samuel: My Life and Loves"

Nicky Samuel meets Paloma Picasso, February 1974

Nicky Samuel meets Paloma Picasso, February 1974

“You know,” said John Richardson, “Andy Warhol’s got an exhibition opening in Paris on the 22nd – his Mao-Tse-Tung pictures. Several of us are going – why don’t you join us?”

“It sounds great, but would I be welcome?”

“As it happens, I’ve already talked it over with Andy. He’s happy and you’ll have a lot of fun. Bob’s going, so is Paloma. We should have a ball.”

Paloma was Paloma Picasso, daughter of the artist and another of the Warhol set whom I’d begun seeing. She had a classically beautiful though at that time very unfashionable figure, and a stunning face on which she wore fairly heavy eye-make-up around her dark eyes, and the reddest lipstick imaginable on her lips. She also wore a good deal of jewellery, most of it designed by herself; and she always looked so stunning that although Yves Laurent gave her lots of his clothes to wear, she could get away with attending some grand function in a second-hand ball-gown bought from a thrift shop, and still look absolutely fabulous.

Paloma was indeed a great deal of fun, and when I told her that I was coming with them on the plane to Paris, she and I decided that we would dress for dinner, which for anyone travelling first-class was in a special upstairs cabin.

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