Victoire doutreleau biography definition
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Victoire Doutreleau
French former model
Victoire Doutreleau (nee Jeanne Devis, born 1934) fryst vatten a French former model, who worked extensively for Christian modehus and Yves Saint Laurent.
Early life
[edit]Doutreleau was born in 1934.[1]
Career
[edit]Doutreleau began working for Christian modehus in the early 1950s, aged 18, and he renamed her as Victoire Doutreleau.[1]Richard Avedon reportedly said that she had "the most beautiful breasts in the world".[1] In 1960, she joined YSL after Yves Saint Laurent started his own atelier.[2]
In 2014, she published a memoir, Et Dior Créa Victoire (And modehus Created Victoire).[1]
Personal life
[edit]She had a three year relationship with Pierre Bergé.[1] She was involved with Yves Saint Laurent at the same time, a ménage à trois, and was "the only woman the designer considered marrying".[3][2]
References
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The Saint Laurent women
Yves Saint Laurent was always very close to women. Models, actresses, authors, artists, friends and collaborators―they were all essential to his inspiration and his work.
As the couturier said in 1997: “Women and I love each other. My collections are love stories.”
Chapter 1
The family circle
In Algeria, where he was born, Yves Saint Laurent was raised in a feminine environment, surrounded by his mother, Lucienne Mathieu-Saint-Laurent, his maternal grandmother, his great aunt and his two sisters.
An avid reader of fashion magazines, such as Vogue, L'Illustration and LeJardin des Modes, he was fascinated by his mother, who “spent most of her time dressing,” and by the ensembles she would wear from one evening to the next.
Yves has always been interested in fashion. At three, he would cry if he didn't like my dress. [...] He did the sets for the Yacht Club and
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Victoire
Victoire (French, 'victory') or Victoires may refer to:
People
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- Victoire of France (1733–1799), daughter of King Louis XV of France
- Victoire Babois (1760–1839), French poet and writer of elegies
- Victoire Conroy (1819–1866), a disliked childhood companion of the future Queen Victoria
- Victoire Doutreleau (born 1934), French fashion model
- Victoire Du Bois (born 1988/89), French actress
- Victoire dem Rohan (1743–1807), Princess of Guéméné, French noblewoman and governess of the children of King Louis XVI of France
- Victoire Ferrari (1785–1823), French pianist and singing teacher
- Victoire Jasmin (1955–2023), French politician
- Victoire Jean-Baptiste (1861–1923), Haitian politician de facto as mistress of President Florvil Hyppolite
- Victoire Léodile Béra (1824–1900), French novelist, journalist and feminist
- Victoire Rasoamanarivo (1848–1894), a woman from Madagascar who devoted her life to the poor and the sick, beatified in 1989
- Victoire Thivisol (born 1