Lucie de la Falaise

Lucie de la Falaise (born 19 February 1973) is a Welsh-born French fashion stylist, former model, and socialite. Early life Lucie le Bailly de la Falaise was born in Wales in 1973, and grew up on a sheep farm. She is the younger of two children. When she was 15, she and her family moved to Fontainebleau, France. Her mother, Louisa Ogilvy, is from Scotland, and her father, the late Count Alexis le Bailly de la Falaise, was a furniture designer who was half French and half English. His mother, Maxime de la Falaise, was a model in the 1950s, while his sister, Loulou de la Falaise, was a muse to fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent. The de la Falaise family are members of an aristocratic French clan whose actual surname is Le Bailly de La Falaise. Career De la Falaise began to model as a teenager, after having been discovered by Vogue magazine's creative director André Leon Talley, who was interviewing her aunt Loulou at the time. De la Falaise and her brother Daniel were featured in a photo spread in the November 1988 issue of Vogue. In 1989, de la Falaise appeared in advertisements for L'Oréal and Givenchy. She later landed a contract with the Yves Saint Laurent fashion house to represent the label's skincare and cosmetics. In January 1990, at the age of 16, de la Falaise walked in her first Saint Laurent haute couture fashion show, where she wore a pink bridal gown at the end of the show. She subsequently became a muse to Saint Laurent himself, who cast her as the bride in his fashion shows from 1990 to 1994. De la Falaise also starred in the ad campaign for the Saint Laurent perfume called Paris.