Stealing someone’s dog sounds bad enough in itself, but what about when said hound is Elizabeth Taylor’s pooch? According to Loulou de la Falaise, that’s the reason she got kicked out of boarding school in Gstaad. But, as the daughter of Maxime de la Falaise told WWD in a July 22, 1976 profile, she was hardly to blame. “I was kicked out rather fast,” she recalled. “I was accused of stealing Liz Taylor’s dog, but it wasn’t true. I found this abandoned dog — his paws were bleeding in the snow. I took him home and took care of him.” Still, our Paris correspondent noted she had other antics up her sleeve — for instance, “her habit of asking Gstaad residents for jobs.”
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“That didn’t go over well at all,” said de la Falaise. “One doesn’t do that sort of thing at nice-little-rich-girls’ private boarding schools.” Here, more from that 1976 interview.
De la Falaise on the women in her family: “[We] have the courage of leading one’s life with a sort of flamboyancy — it’s a question of the authority of one’s own character.”
On working at Yves Saint Laurent: “On the 16th of September five years ago, I started working in Saint Laurent. At first I just sort of walked around the design area a lot and said, ‘Oh — that’s pretty.’”
On Saint Laurent: “Before I met Yves, I couldn’t concentrate for more than five minutes. He has taught me how to work. He has taught me so many things. Everything.”
On Kenzo Takada: “Kenzo and I met two-and-a-half years ago over a dinner with some mutual friends. We were both very, very drunk. We immediately made huge declarations to each other.”
On American style: “Most American women are quite good-looking. And they’re quite good at dressing. A [bit] boring maybe, but in general American women who buy fashion look quite good.”