Hints and tips:
...She hosts her appointments in the salon of her Rue Dauphine apartment in the 6th arrondissement, surrounded by midcentury furniture and books on couturiers such as Madeleine Vionnet or Alexander McQueen....
...There’s a woman sitting between me and the window, perfectly channelling a young Isabelle Huppert. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone so immaculately turned out and so utterly insubstantial....
...The rest of the cast could learn a few tricks from Hirsch and 88-year-old Isabelle Sadoyan, who plays Madeleine with matter-of-fact simplicity....
...It was a link about which the film’s producers had no idea when they approached her with the story of wartime doctor Madeleine Pauliac....
...Isabelle Legeron, who writes about her favourite topic, natural wine elsewhere in this issue (“Pure pleasure: the natural wine bar scene”), is a rarity: a French Master of Wine....
...Isabelle Ciaravola, a picture of old-fashioned glamour, and Karl Paquette as a handsome libertine led the performance....
...Nor does Christian Dior or Madeleine Vionnet or Pierre Cardin – all of whom arguably changed the way women dressed, and the course of fashion, just as much as Chanel....
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