#Rochefort costume

[thewizardlywyrm]

Took a very low-effort version of Rochefort to the local Renaissance Faire last weekend!

Thank you so much to my fellow artist and vendor and best kid in the world ( who is not a kid anymore but as parent I get to be an irritating sod forever, it's a tradition ) @aminojackal for taking photos and just dealing with me in general on an everyday basis!

Aminojackal and I were vendoring, so we could only sneak away for a couple of quick photos before things got rolling.

I was going on a wild amount of physical work, a long work week with lots of bike communting, and about two hours of sleep, so pardon the haggard look! XD

( I had to keep holding on to my hat because it was WINDY AF- I'm going to be attaching the hat to wig fully as my next step for this costume to help with that. It's always windy where I live so I don't know what I was really expecting, lmao! ) We're planning some cool, outdoors photoshoots of our various ren faire costumes- I deffo want some nice ones of Rochefort under more chill circumstances and we have some cool locations around here, so stay tuned I guess?

Don't worry, the mask was only down once we found a good extremely deserted spot! We were mask-conscious all weekend, as always!

#cosplay #Rochefort #Comte de Rochefort #Rochefort Cosplay #The Three Musketeers #the Three Musketeers 1993 #Three Musketeers Cosplay #The three Musketeers Cosplay #Captain Rochefort #Captain Rochefort cosplay #Rochefort costume #Renaissance Faire #Great Plains Renaissance Faire #GPRF #photo post #long post

[wool-string]

#my art #my ocs #oc art #Ernest and santo in their little Halloween costumes #ofc Ernest is a ghost #and Santo is already a Brujo but it’s cute to dress him as one #santo armas #Ernest Rochefort

[lasthumaninwales]

Watching Robin Hood Prince of Thieves with my wife and son last night, and I commented to her that it felt like a bunch of 90s action movies had characters like Guy of Gisborne - extra slimy, creepy second in command to the principal villain, does a lot of his dirty work, I think tvtropes calls them "the dragon".

Specifically I brought up Rochefort from 1993's The Three Musketeers as having the exact same vibe.

Then I looked it up and lo and behold, same dude.

Michael Wincott had himself a niche in the early 90s.

#robin hood #three musketeers #michael wincott #the rochefort costume was more flattering and less greasy

[adarkrainbow]

Behind Peau d’Âne (1970) - A

I want to talk a bit about one of the most famous French “fairy tale movies”, still very popular to this day: 1970′s “Peau d’Âne”, Donkey Skin by Jacques Demy. If you aren’t familiar with the movie this series of posts will... probably confuse you a lot, as what I will do is go over info about the movie’s production, creation, adaptation process. I actually decided to make this series of posts because there is a full article about this movie with ton of info and analysis - but given it is only in French well, why not share it in English for non-French speakers? X) So let’s go.

# So, Demy’s project for a “fairy tale” movie dates back as early as the 1950s: he had written a script for a Sleeping Beauty movie, but it never went anywhere. The two movies he did after that, “Lola” and “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” did reference fairy tales, but they were not a full fairy tale movie. After a trip to the USA  between 1967 and 1969 for the making of his movie “Model Shop”, he returned to his fairy tale project out of a desire to make a movie fully into French culture and fully into the “merveilleux” genre. Out of all the tales of Perrault, Demy decides to choose “Peau d’âne”, “Donkeyskin” due to how weird this story of a girl hiding in a donkey skin to escape an incestuous father was, and because he felt it was the most complex of Perrault stories. In fact, Demy had already written a Donkey Skin script back in 1962 - and his original plans for the movie back then were to have as the Princesse and Prince Brigitte Bardot (which did happen) and Anthony Perkins (because he was then spending a lot of time in Europe). In fact both actors had agreed to the project, but due to financial reasons it was stopped, and if Demy putted it back together in 1969 it was because of the HUGE success of “The Young Girls of Rochefort” in 67. 

# Before Demy’s movie, there was only ONE French cinematographic adaptation of “Donkey Skin”, a mute 1908 short film by Albert Capellani, which itself was an adaptation of a “féerie” as they were called (a sub-type of theatrical performances) from 1838 and was a big success of the 19th century stage. But this original theater play (by Emle Vanderburch and Laurencin), and the later short movie, had removed the incestuous nature of the story. The princess was forced into the donkey-skin as a punishment for her vanity. As a result, Demy’s movie was the first attempt at making a faithful cinematographic adaptation of the story exploring the incestuous thematic. It was quite a bold and audacious move compared to the landscape of 60s French cinema, but Demy had grown quite bold and audacious during his trip to the United-States. He wanted to get rid of his reputation of a “maker of pastel movies” that the “Young Girls of Rochefort” earned him, he wanted to do something “simple and true” like the “Umbrellas of Cherbourg”. And he had this to say to his experience in the USA: he discovered America as a “baroque and garish world where the notion of “taste”, the French good taste we are injected with like a vaccine, did not exist”. He said he was “transported by” and “adored” the “American bad taste”. 

# Despite his first American movie, “Model Shop” being a failure, Hollywood producers wanted Demy to make another project, “A Walk in the Spring Rain” with Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Quinn. But Demy refused because he really wanted to just do his “Peau d’âne” and return to his own passion projects. So he launched his Donkey Skin project, riding on the fame of “The Young Girls of Rochefort”, and using the famous and iconic actress Catherine Deneuve for the main role. In fact her presence in the movie was a big help in finding financial means, because while producers refused to spend anything on a “movie for kids”, they were all aboard to fund a “Catherine Deneuve piece”. 

# The costumes were created in a complex way. They were first imagined and conceived by Agostino Pace in fifteen days, because he was very busy with theater work and so only had fifteen days to co-work with Demy to create all of the costumes (Demy himself checked Pace’s work almost every fifteen minutes, and gave constant feedback and review other those days as Pace worked actually at Demy’s house for those fifteen days). It is notably when Pace had the idea to split the two kingdoms into two colors - he wanted to make visuals “just like children would”, to deliberately play on the “childish freedom” of such a movie. The costumes however were created, physically, by Gitt Magrini, who made them all in Italy before shipping them to France. And Magrini added his own touch and twist to the costumes by taking inspiration from the fashions of the Renaissance and from the era of Charlemagne (in fact, the way the beard of the Red King is covered in flowers is a nod to Charlemagne’s nickname “the emperor with the flowery beard”). The dresses of the Princess were inspired by the Louis XV fashion, but with references to the Walt Disney movies ; as for the Prince’s outfit they were taken out of the Henri II fashion. For the Lilac Fairy however they completely mixed the “Hollywood glamor” style (with a vaporous negligee) with classical “Cour fashion” (such as the big collar). The three dresses asked by the Princess (the Weather, Moon and Sun dress) were actually very heavy (just like the fake donkey skin), and Deneuve had a lot of troubles walking around with them (especially since they shot in the Chambord castles which TONS of staircases), so she had to slide between shots a stool under her dresses to be able to rest. Deneuve notably remembers that Demy was very uncaring when it came to the difficulties of the costumes, as he didn’t care if an outfit was practical or not, or if it caused actors problem, because for him as long as it looked good in the movie it had to go. 

# When there is the sequence of the Ball of the Cats and Birds, Demy wanted to recreate the works of Leonor Fini (which notably greatly inspired both the surrealists and Jean Cocteau). As for the donkey-skin... I have to correct what I said earlier, it wasn’t fake. It was a real donkey skin, taken from a slaughterhouse - which, even if it was cleaned up and adapted as a movie costume, still was a very heavy thing to wear, and smelled quite bad. In fact, Deneuve was not told it was a real skin - she thought it was fake all the way until the movie was finished shooting. 

# The sets were conceived by Jim Leon, famous for his love of the “oniric art of the 19th century”. He was chosen by Demy after a meeting at San Francisco where Leon showed him drawings he mades of butterflies, as well as an erotic drawing of Alice in Wonderland. 

# Demy insisted on having “natural” sets and shooting in real buildings and real nature - notably the shooting of the movie took place during eight weeks at the height of 1970′s summer. Several of the “Loire castles” were used for the movie; Chambord’s castle for the Red castle and the wedding scenes ; the Plessis-Bourré castle for the Blue castle. Other castles included the Neuville castle and his park (Yvelines) for the farm and cabin-in-the-woods scene ; and the Pierrefonsds castle (Oise) for the final scene of the “guests parade”. As for the “dream of the lovers”, it was shot in the Eure-et-Loir countryside, near Rouvres and the house of Michel Legrand.

# Demy insisted on the actors using a lot of gestures ; and he asked them to over-play, to exaggerate everything from the looks they cave to the emotions they expressed. In fact, they over-played so much they often had fits of laughter (and you can still see hints of them trying not to laugh in the movie). It was all to play in the “aesthetic and literary marvel”, in a “surreal” feeling. 

# The movie had some budget restrains, which made it less grandiose than originally planned: most of the money went towards the sets and the costumes, and both Jacques Demy and Catherine Deneuve agreed to be paid less than they should have to help the movie go forward. A part of the financial problems came to Bernard Evein, in charge of the decoration, being unable to clearly estimate the price of the sets due to lacking any type of comparative element - Peau d’Âne was THAT much of an unusual movie. When the sets were finally done, it turned out they costed twice as much as initially planned. There was a lot of “last-time fix-up”, such as the bed of the Princess in her bedroom, which was apparetly a fixing of a “catastrophic mess” and not at all what was originally planned. It was originally supposed to be an enormous pink flower that would open when the Princess came near it and close itself when she slept in it - but their attempt at doing so was disastrous, and so to replace it they just took two of the statues actually already present at the Chambord castle and they improvised a bed with them. 

# Despite all that, Demy and his actors apparently had a great relationship: he included them in his talks of the scenario, annd it was so smooth that Jacques Perrin (the actor of the Prince) declared that he wouldn’t place “Donkey Skin” with his other cinema works, because it wasn’t true “work” like the others, but more of a pleasant and memorable experience. But the relationship between Demy and his production director, Philippe Dussart were... poisonous to say the best, as the movie went not only over-budget for what was initially planned, but over-budget for what ANY French movie of the time usually did. Demy notably explained how he had to basically cut half of the sets, half of the actors and half of the costumes, which saddened him as he wanted to make a truly grand, majestic, magical piece, and in his own word “magic costs A LOT”. 

# The team was thankful for being able to shot at the Chambord castle... BUT it came with a lot of problems. They shot in a part of the castle not accessible to the public, and given it had barely any furniture, you often heard the sound of the tourists and guides from the rest of the castles, arriving through echoes to the set. Jacques Demy notably had a lot of patience as he calmly stopped shooting every time there were “tourists noises” and they resumed once the group was away. 

# Demy insisted on having a lot of “artisanal” special effects, to recreate the type of movies of George Méliès and Jean Cocteau. In fact there is a great mystery surrounding one specific trick: how were the clouds on the “Weather Dress” able to move? According to Demy, Deneuve and Agnès Varda (a producer of the movie) the dress was made out of the same material used for cinema screens - the clouds moving were shot separately by a 16 millimeters camera, and then projected onto the dress, with the projector constantly following the actress. However, despite those three testimonies, there is a problem... In 2013, in honor of the movie, the dresses were recreated, and when the Weather Dress had to be re-created, the team in charge realized that such a “projection technique” was impossible, pointing out how the waves and folds of the dress would have deformed the picture. They pointed out how the material of the dress seemed “too soft”, and pushed forward the idea that the cloud images were added later as the movie was edited. But another theory was also pushed forward: it is possible that the dress was made out of Translex, a specific “reflective material” on which the picture was projected through a complex system of colorless mirrors. But we will probably never know the truth as the men in charge of the special effects for the movie ALWAYS refused to reveal their trick. 

# Jim Morrison visited the shooting of the movie at the Chambord castle, with his friend Alain Ronay (they had studied cinema together apparently). He took pictures of the shooting of the movie, and while very discreet on the scene he did agree to one autograph, for Duncan Youngerman (the son of Delphine Seyrig, the Lilac Fairy). 

# The scenes of Donkey-Skin working at the farm were apparently really difficult, not just because of the problems of the donkye-ksin itself, but because due to it being the heat of summer it was really hot, AND the manure... was just as real as the skin. 

#peau d'âne #donkey skin #donkeyskin #peau d'âne 1970 #jacques demy #french fairytales #french movie #perrault fairytales #fairytale movie

[galleryofunknowns]

Jean Baptiste Santerre (b.1651 - d.1717), 'Woman in a Fancy Costume, or the Marquise de Moulins Rochefort in Venetian Costume', oil on canvas, no date (17th Century), French, currently in the collection of the Louvre, Paris, France.

#jean baptiste santerre #known sitter #unknown sitter #known artist #french #oil on canvas #marquise de moulins rochefort #1600s #louvre

[catwwoman]

Top 10 movie musicals?

Thanks for the ask!

I had to rack my brain for this one. There's several musicals I haven't seen in years, but these are from my more recent memories.

The Sound of Music: A classic from my childhood which I still have on VHS. Great story and great cinematography.

Mamma Mia: I usually judge musicals by the actor's ability to sing and no, not everyone in this film can sing, but they are having a lot of fun so it gets a pass. Also it's ABBA. I don't care for the sequel though.

Mary Poppins: Another Julie Andrews movie, but I love this one a lot too. Whimsical. I want her carpet bag and flying umbrella. I don't like the sequel for this one either.

Phantom of the Opera: Love the atmosphere of this film. It's the only one on this list I've seen professionally done and while the vocals aren't as strong as stage performances, I still enjoy this film.

Phantom of the Paradise: A recent find for me, but I enjoyed it. Campy. Also the songwriter/villain wrote music for the Muppets?!

The Young Girls of Rochefort: Another recent film I enjoyed. Silly Sixties French movie. Gene Kelly was a surprise.

Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella: I love the music in this one. Great actors and vocalists.

Little Shop of Horrors: My high school actually performed this so it holds good memories for me. Amazing special effects and fun songs.

Chicago: I like the Jazz Age and I think everyone did a good job in this film.

Hello, Dolly!: Barbara Streisand is a great singer. I love her costumes.

Ask me my "top 5/top 10" anything

#me

[extremeeastfgc]

🕹🎮👊 TEKKEN 8 - LILI - Emilie de Rochefort 『鉄拳8』「リリ」エミリ・ド・ロシュフォール Lili returns to #TEKKEN8 ! Lili's new costume designed by Lady artist @JasminDarnell https://twitter.com/JasminDarnell . I met her amazing talent in 2017& a few years later I ordered Lili's costume design from her. Plz visit her website (I was lucky enough to order a design from her before she became famous)! #LILI #リリ #エミリドロシュフォール #EmiliedeRochefort #TEKKEN8 #鉄拳8 #fgc #fgcbr #fightinggames #fightinggamecommunity #fightinggame #格闘ゲーム #対戦型格闘ゲーム #戦型格闘ゲーム #格ゲー #jogosdeluta #エクストリームイーストエフジーシー #バンダイナムコエンターテインメント #格ゲーマー #extremeeastfgc #3D武器対戦格闘ゲーム #3D武器格闘アクション #3D対戦型格闘ゲーム

[ccthewriter]

CC's New Watch Ranking 2022: #2 - The Young Girls of Rochefort

1967, dir. Jacques Demy

Every year on Letterboxd, I make a list of the 100 best films I’ve seen for the first time. It’s a fun way to compare movies separated in time, genre, and country of origin, and helps me keep track of what I’m watching! This is a series of posts about my Top 10.

This is the pinnacle of cinematic joy. No other film contains such happiness, such leaping mirth, such radiant sunshine. This is a glass of lemonade at the height of spring; this is a giggling kiss given behind a carnival. Every few days I turn to my wife and scream-sing “Nous sommes deux soeurs jumelles! Nées sous le signe des Gémeaux!” and it never fails to make us laugh. You’ll find this year’s ranking contains a lot of serious films, many of which touch on the darker elements of our lives. Les Demoiselles de Rochefort stands in stark contrast as a true comedy in the classical sense, concerned only with love and laughter. It is the best musical ever committed to film. 

Young Girls follows a pair of twins looking for love. Their mother runs a cafe in the town square, where a caravan of performers have just arrived to set up a carnival. They dance around this space as they seek romance, their soulmates passing through and barely missing them each time. It’s a wonderful comedy of errors, interspersed with the greatest musical numbers you’ve ever seen. 

I want to express my affection for this movie with a high-pitched squeal, because every element is perfect. But I’ll try to isolate what’s working here. The story is simple and classical. The visual language is divine. It begins with a very long shot of the caravan traveling over a bridge to arrive in town. The lingering intro makes viewers feel transported into Rochefort, which becomes less of a real city and more of a fairytale kingdom. The set design and costuming is brilliant, and is displayed with a relatively still camera that will rotate to view its subject, but rarely go dutch or do anything else fancy. The stillness makes the contents of the frame shine. 

There’s some Wes Anderson levels of symmetry and color at play here, too. The sisters are coded in yellow and pink, and the entire world is tinted to match them. They pass through the Frenchest, most beautiful locations imaginable. An antique store with rococo furnishing and white marble. Little shops made of wood and glass. Cobblestone alleys lined with bright plaster. Truly, every detail, from top to bottom, is made with cinematic beauty and grace. And the music! It soars, it's jazzy, it's a little funky, it's just the best you could imagine.

I’m finding myself at a loss for words! I don’t know what else to say other than this is good - really, really, really good. No movie embodies the freeing feeling of love better. There’s a production history I don’t know about and couldn’t begin to describe. Catherine Deneuve is incredible, but we’ll spend more time talking about her very soon. If you find yourself sad and looking for something to cheer you up, this film is it. Treat yourself to the freedom of the soul this film can instill. You deserve it. When we think of building a better world, we should focus on making it feel like this one.

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Thank you for reading! If you made it this far why don’t you give me a follow on Letterboxd, where I post reviews and keep obsessive track of all the movies I watch. Feel free to drop a line if you checked this movie out and want to share your thoughts!

#the young girls of rochefort #jacques demy #movies #film #letterboxd #movie list #film list #ranking #cc oc

[daniel-levy-chemisier]

Jean Rochefort Il est à tout jamais Étienne Dorsay, d'Un éléphant ça trompe, l’amoureux transi d'Anny Duperey, en peignoir rayé, sur le toit d'un immeuble de l'avenue de La Grande Armée. Enfant il est fou de dessins animés et écoute, religieusement, dans le noir avec sa maman, les représentations théâtrales à la radio. Son enfance est joyeuse. Dans les films de vacances, a 18 ans, burlesque et poétique, déjà il fait rire. En 1951 Il s'installe à Paris, vit dans une chambre de bonne et entre au Conservatoire. Il s'y fait une bande de copains pour la vie : La « bande du Conservatoire », Belmondo, Marielle, Annie Girardot, Françoise Fabian, Claude Rich... C'est Belmondo qui le recommande pour "Cartouche" jurant que Rochefort est un excellent cavalier. Ce qu'il n'est pas encore ! Jean apprendra à monter à cheval en 8 jours. Cartouche va changer sa carrière et c'est un coup de foudre pour l'équitation. C'est après ce film qu'apparait le Jean Rochefort moustachu.  Élégant il affiche un look de dandy, mais porte rarement le costume, ou alors en velours ! "Un jour, au Conservatoire, un comédien [Georges Descrières], en costume trois pièces comme il se devait à cette époque, me prend à part et me dit : « Tu ne réussiras jamais, tu t'habilles trop mal. » « De ce jour, j'ai décidé de ne jamais porter de costume trois pièces. » Il opte donc pour les pantalons en velours côtelé colorés, toujours amples, retenus par des bretelles, elles aussi de couleurs vives. Quand Jean Rochefort ne porte pas de nœud papillon il apprécie les cravates en tricot. Quand il ne porte pas des souliers bicolores il arbore des sneakers vives qui tranchent avec ses tenues. « J'aime l'habit confortable, mais j'ai la trouille de la charentaise. » s'amuse t'il. @monsieur_etiennedorsay #daniellevychemisier #jeanrochefort #icone #àlafrançaise Merci @ze_french_do_it_better pour ce texte. (à Daniel Lévy) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj8uWlfr_FV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#daniellevychemisier #jeanrochefort #icone #àlafrançaise

[spectrumtacular]

9, 12, 15, 20, 23, and 24 for the movie asks?

9. A film set in a place you've always wanted to visit

I NEED to know if Winnipeg really sucks as much as it seems to in My Winnipeg (2007).

12. A film who's main genre is horror/thriller

X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes (1963). I loooooooove Roger Corman, he always does the most with a shoestring budget and a cliche script, and this one is one of his best.

15. A film who's main genre is fantasy

The Thief of Bagdad (1924)!! The sets and costumes are a sight to behold, the special effects are outstanding, and Fairbanks is a very charismatic lead, outshone only by the ever-extraordinary Anna May Wong in her supporting role!!

20. A film where the vibes are immaculate

The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) has easily some of the most immaculate vibes ever captured on film.

23. A film that is a box office flop

I don't care what anybody says, Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981) is a cinematic masterpiece. I think more Zorro movies should include Zorro's gay twin brother who's also Zorro.

24. A film that is a box office success

Gonna go with the top-grossing film of 1959, Ben-Hur!!!! The chariot race sequence is one of my all-time favourite movie moments!!!!!

(more movie asks here!)

#that first q was soooo hard bc no one makes movies about the places i want to travel to lol #thanks for the ask! :)

[thewizardlywyrm]

[Image ID: Several black and white ballpoint drawings of a werewolf wearing an eyepatch, in 1600s costume consisting mostly of a tunic and plumed hat. From upper left to bottom right: standing defiantly with a sword’s blade pointed at him. Smiling with his head tilted upward, looking toward the viewer. Standing with a cloak draped over his right side, looking to the side with his paw on his sword hilt. Holding his hat to his chest, looking concerned. Looking toward the viewer while brandishing his sword. Kneeling forward and looking up off-panel with a speech bubble reading “There are three who remain, Your Eminence”. /end ID]

I decided to combine two of my interests and make Werewolf!Rochefort!  Why? Because!  ( Super super new to image IDs, please let me know if it’s incorrect/too complicated/etc.! Looking to improve and make my work more accessible! )

#werewolf #Captain Rochefort #Comte de Rochefort #The Three Musketeers #The Three Musketeers 1993 #fanart #Rochefort #werewolves #doodles

[angelofviscera]

not my photo but these were the donkey skin costumes @ the exhibit!! i haven't seen any of jacques demy's films yet but i really want to so this was very cool to see <3

ohhhh these are gorgeous what!!thank u for sharing them with me!!!! 💗💞 and my favourite jacques demy film is the young girls of rochefort if u wanna <3 read the wikipedia synopsis <3 very silly and pretty and fun!!!

[aquarian-sunchild]

Watched Les Demoiselles de Rochefort a couple nights ago.

Very cute, very sweet. Saccharine but enjoyable. Loved the camera work and costume design. Loved watching George Chakaris be stupid talented and attractive. However, the music was a bit repetitive, the overall run time was a touch long and tested my tolerance threshold for French-ness. The ending was nice though.

I'm also struggling with a young woman falling in love with a middle-aged Gene Kelly like come on.

#lea demoiselles de Rochefort #George Chakaris deserved a bigger career #dammit #I can only tolerate France so much

[chaoticwhiteboys]

New Overboard!!

These costumes motherfucking stunned me so bad I dropped my phone. Watch it immediately!

#simone de rochefort #halloween #polygon #pat gill #gaming #bdg #jenna stoeber #karen han #brian david gilbert #patrick gill #overboard #polygon dot com video producers #polygon dot com #polygondotcom #polygon overboard #I've even seen the dang costumes already and I still just lost my mind

[romanceyourdemons]

something i really enjoy about the young girls of rochefort (1967) is how it not only doesn’t fight but leans heavily into the “bubble world” affect many musicals have. this is not the dark and rubble-strewn city of west side story (2021); rather, the eponymous rochefort is a colorful and lighthearted and deeply self-contained town. with all the unlikely colors of the set matching the colors of the costumes, with the supernatural serendipity of encounters and the neatly parceled interactions, it is only natural that people start singing and dancing to sourceless music from time to time. so powerful is this bright bubble of a musical that the grimness of dark events merely slides off it. everywhere in the film there are soldiers; murderers roam the streets and even enter the houses of the characters; one of the titular young girls’s ex boyfriend contemplated murdering her; and all these, openly visible in the story, become swept up in the whirl of romantic big-band music and large ensemble dance numbers. the frivolity of this film is not a matter of negative space, an absence of heavier material. rather, it is a deliberate and positive presence. this is lightness despite the dark, not lightness apart from weight. this dynamic gives a deliberateness to its format that made me enjoy this by all accounts very light hearted film all the more. for its color and skill and for its clear lightness, i would highly recommend the young girls of rochefort (1967)

#ryddles

[prettyfuul]

Catherine Deneuve and Yves Saint Laurent, 1966 during the opening of the first YSL boutique in Paris.

Catherine Deneuve was 22 years old when she met Yves Saint Laurent for the first time. She was married to the British photographer David Bailey and was about to be introduced to the Queen of England when she chose Saint Laurent to dress her. She later commissioned another dress from him for an event promoting Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (The Young Girls of Rochefort). Deneuve also suggested that Saint Laurent design her costumes for Luis Buñuel’s Belle de jour. It would be the beginning of an enduring friendship..

#catherine deneuve #yves saint laurent #couples