Maxime De La Falaise Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Maxime de la Falaise (25 June 1922 – 30 April 2009) was a 1950s model, and, in the 1960s, an underground movie actress. She is also remembered as a cookery writer and "food maven" and a fashion designer for Chloé and Gérard Pipart. In her later years she pursued a career as a furniture and interior designer. In the 1950s, Maxime de la Falaise worked for Elsa Schiaparelli as a vendeuse mondaine which she explained as "a sort of muse who was supposed to encourage sales to the rich English". She modelled for photographers such as Georges Dambier, Jack Robinson, and Cecil Beaton. She... MORE

Maxime de la Falaise (25 June 1922 – 30 April 2009) was a 1950s model, and, in the 1960s, an underground movie actress. She is also remembered as a cookery writer and "food maven" and a fashion designer for Chloé and Gérard Pipart. In her later years she pursued a career as a furniture and interior designer. In the 1950s, Maxime de la Falaise worked for Elsa Schiaparelli as a vendeuse mondaine which she explained as "a sort of muse who was supposed to encourage sales to the rich English". She modelled for photographers such as Georges Dambier, Jack Robinson, and Cecil Beaton. She "dressed with uninhibited chic" and according to The Independent, Cecil Beaton once called her "the only truly chic Englishwoman". While living in New York Maxime de La Falaise wrote a food column for Vogue magazine which she hoped to develop into a television cookery programme. In 1980, she published a collection of these columns, with her own illustrations, under the title Food in Vogue. In 1973 she published Seven Centuries of English Cooking: A Collection of Recipes. She also wrote the foreword to My Kingdom of Books (1999) by Richard Booth. Andy Warhol envisioned Maxime de La Falaise as part of Andy LESS