Quotes from Alicia Drake

It deified a certain posture: static, cream-shouldered, jutting hips, cigarette poised between lipstick and eternity.

And opposite Jacques sat Karl Lagerfeld, German ready-to-wear designer, lavish in wing collar and monocle, a fashion force in the making.

Designers, models and muses all came seeking attention at the Flore. There, bathed in the sunlight, were Betty Catroux, Loulou de la Falaise and Clara Saint, the female triumvirate of the most powerful and seductive fashion designer in Paris,Yves Saint Laurent.Yves himself was rarely seen at the Flore, although