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Obituary: Jacqueline Munro-Lafon, doyenne of the French community in Scotland

Jacqueline Munro-Lafon: An appreciation JACQUELINE Munro-Lafon was the doyenne of the French community in Scotland, an iconic and much-loved figure. On February 13 she died peacefully in Glasgow, in the presence of her son and daughter-in-law, a fortnight after her hundredth birthday. Jacqueline Lafon was born in 1921, in Paris like four generations of her family before. Her father was a wine merchant, and the family lived in the Latin Quarter, that alluring fusion of bourgeois elegance, intellectual enquiry, and student buzz. After leaving school, she undertook a journalism degree, her life seemingly mapped out. The Second World War was to change everything.

Books of the week: From Priyanka Chopra Jonas memoir to Fakir Mohan Senapati s Six and a Third Acres, our picks

Books of the week: From Priyanka Chopra Jonas memoir to Fakir Mohan Senapati s Six and a Third Acres, our picks
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William Waterfield, plantsman who created a famous garden in the South of France – obituary

William Waterfield, plantsman who created a famous garden in the South of France – obituary The Telegraph hailed him as ‘unquestionably the figure to whom all who toil seriously at their craft turn for counsel’ 25 January 2021 • 3:56pm Waterfield: a keen botanist from childhood, he brought  horticultural expertise and hard work to Le Clos du Peyronnet at Menton William Waterfield, who has died aged 78, was one of the last of a succession of British gardeners distinguished for their skill and expertise on the French Riviera. The list includes Lady Aberconway (1854-1933) at the Château de la Garoupe on Cap d’Antibes; Harold Peto (also 1854-1933) at the Villas Sylvia, Maryland and Rosemary on Cap Ferrat, as well as at Isola Bella in Cannes; and Lawrence Johnston (1871-1958), the designer not only of the garden at Hidcote in Gloucestershire, but also that at Serre de la Madone in Menton.

The YSL wardrobe of dancer Zizi Jeanmaire | Christie s

‘All she had to do was come on stage and everything burst into life, fire and flames’ Yves Saint Laurent on Zizi Jeanmaire The YSL wardrobe of the impossibly chic Parisian ballerina, chanteuse and fashion muse is offered online until 26 January Every fashion designer has his or her muse. Yves Saint Laurent, who revolutionised womenswear with the female trench coat, tuxedo, pantsuit, safari jacket and jumpsuit and whose art collection, assembled with his partner Pierre Bergé, sold for nearly €374 million at Christie’s in Paris in 2009 had several. Victoire Doutreleau, Betty Catroux, Loulou de la Falaise and Mounia are among the most frequently mentioned. Yet Zizi Jeanmaire, the ballerina and chanteuse known for her pixie cut and enviably long legs, who led the applause after Saint Laurent’s first show under his own name in 1962, was no less a part of his inner circle.

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