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	• The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris Alicia Drake Little, Brown and Company, 2006 - 448 pages average customer review:based on 22 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

For fans of Yves Saint Laurent, Karl Lagerfeld and the 70's

I was glued to this book and found it absolutely fascinating and informative.

I enjoyed reliving those heady days of fashion, parties, sex, drugs and Disco. It was an eye-opener and I wish I was there then.

Highly recommended if you're into all that wonderful hedonism of the 70's. Loved it!

A Perfect View of Fashion of what it was and is now

Alicia Drakes' book "The Beautful Fall" shows the rise of the designer as celebrity star rather than the clothes which he designs. It shows that there could only be one designer on top, for either one of them to succeed in their own mind. It shows a human side - both positive and negative in their personalities and actions throughout the 1970's. Both were ego-maniacs but brilliant in their opposite directions. I knew all about Lagerfeld's dismissal of people but not the scale of it and the book tries to explain it. Yves was not any better with his need for people. But, Lagerfeld is curently sueing the author for what she wrote in her book, which i think will make the book sell better.

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Great Read.

One of the best historical fashion books on the market. Although YSL & Lagerfield both deny portions of the dispute, the storytelling is compelling, provocative and provides sound perspective on conservative France, the 1970's revolution and the gay movement.

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If You Had Not Been There,

This account of the period could seem overly complex and, no doubt, somewhat dry--lost to time. If you had been there, it almost scores a bull's eye--albeit without the energy/urgency of the era (which might be totally impossible). Kudos to Alicia Drake for coming so close!

A sublime and dramatic narrative about the high-chic fashion wars of 1970s Paris, in the tradition of Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.

Paris in the '70s was running at full tilt--a new order was coming into view amid hedonism, ambition, and outrageous decadence. This was a fashion revolution, the beginning of fashion as rock-star spectacle, and the world went wild for it. Alicia Drake writes about the dramatic collision and rivalry between two titanic geniuses, Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld, whose clashes sparked that tumultuous decade. Americans came to Paris in droves--from Andy Warhol and Jerry Hall to Bianca Jagger and Jessica Lange--to be part of this irresistible moment. Others came just to catch sight of Karl Lagerfeld strutting around the cafés in his high heels and furs. Drake vividly captures the stunning highs and heartbreaking lows, the glorious achievements and dramas of an era when style reigned in the most glamorous of cities.

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