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The Beautiful Fall by Alicia Drake
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The Beautiful Fall

Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris

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Narrator Bernadette Dunne
Length 16 hours 19 minutes
Language English
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In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded like a champagne bottle left out in the sun. Amid sequins and longing, celebrities and aspirants flocked to the heart of chic, and Paris became a hothouse of revelry, intrigue, and searing ambition. At the center of it all were fashion’s most beloved luminaries—Yves Saint Laurent, the reclusive enfant terrible, and Karl Lagerfeld, the flamboyant freelancer with a talent for reinvention—and they divided Paris into two fabulous halves. Their enduring rivalry is chronicled in this dazzling exposé of an era: of social ambitions, shared obsessions, and the mesmerizing quest for beauty.

Alicia Drake writes regularly for publications including International Herald Tribune, British Vogue, Travel + Leisure, and W Magazine, for which she was a contributing editor.

Bernadette Dunne is the winner of more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and has twice been nominated for the prestigious Audie Award. She studied at the Royal National Theatre in London and the Studio Theater in Washington, DC, and has appeared at the Kennedy Center and off Broadway.

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Reviews

“Deliciously dramatic…The Beautiful Fall crackles with excitement.”

“Fascinating.”

“[It] moves stylishly forward, with frequent over-the-shoulder glances at some very dishy background…A story constructed as exquisitely as a couture dress.”

“This is an extremely readable and impressively researched book.”

“Addictive.”

“It’s like US Weekly, 1970s style.”

“This smart book stitches together the lives, loves, personalities, and obsessions of two iconic designers, Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld, into a work as finely detailed as any outfit they ever sent down a runway.”

“These titanic designers crafted their personas as carefully as they put together their luxurious collections, and we come to know them as reflections in the mirror houses they built…Ultimately, Drake makes a good case for the extraordinary nature of their individual achievements and the revolutionary effect of their competitive energy on the fashion industry. And yet we’re left with a portrait defined more by the careful craft of its brushstrokes than by the substance of the sitters.”

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