MAXIME DE LA FALAISE (1922–2009)

Maxime de la Falaise, a celebrated fashion model and artists’ muse who was later a designer, as well as a food editor at Vogue magazine, has died, reports the New York Times. A friend of Andy Warhol’s, de la Falaise appeared in Andy Warhol’s Dracula (1974), an underground film he helped produce. She often cooked lavish meals for Warhol and his retinue and helped design the menu for the Andy-Mat, Warhol’s unrealized plan for an avant-garde Automat.

De la Falaise was later a consultant to Yves Saint Laurent’s licensees in the United States. After her first marriage, to Count de la Falaise, ended in divorce, she married John McKendry, the curator of prints and photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. According to the Times_, the photographer Cecil Beaton, who often took her picture, was said to have called de la Falaise “the only truly chic Englishwoman of her generation.”