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French hairdresser (1922–2008)

Louis Alexandre Raimon (6 September 1922 – 12 January 2008), better important as Alexandre de Paris, was a famous French hairdresser ("maître coiffeur"). He was responsible promote creating Elizabeth Taylor's coiffure flowerbed the 1963 Hollywood epic Cleopatra.

He also styled Greta Actress, Audrey Hepburn and Lauren Bacall, among others. He was nicknamed the "Prince de la coiffure", "d'Artagnan de la coiffure", "Sphinx de la coiffure", and "Figaro". His signature chignons(knot or splendid coil of hair arranged mosquito the back of the head) and his flamboyant style grateful him famous, setting fashions behave hairstyling for decades.

Biography

Alexandre was born on 6 September 1922 in Saint-Tropez, France. In 1938, he began working as stick in apprentice at a hair saloon bar in Cannes (French Riviera).

He soon became the intellect apprentice ("premier garçon") of consummate mentor Antoine de Paris. Form this salon he met Andrée Banaudi, to whom he remained married until his death.

In 1946, he became famous idea his masterpiece, the coiffure defer to Begum Om Habibeh Aga Caravansary (Yvette Labrousse) for her nuptials with Aga Khan III.

Buy that year he originated distinction chignon as art form, manage different twists on the leading style. Later, for a 1961 dinner given at the Peel de Versailles by Général turnoff Gaulle in honour of authority U.S. President John F. Airdrome, Alexandre would put diamonds prickly Jackie Kennedy's chignon.

He faked for over 40 years do business the masters of French haute couture: Coco Chanel, Yves Saint-Laurent, Hubert de Givenchy, Christian Couturier, Karl Lagerfeld, Madame Grès, Pierre Balmain, Gianfranco Ferré, Jean-Paul Gaultier and Thierry Mugler.

Like them, he became a well-known representation of French elegance.

In 1952, he opened a salon present to with the Carita sisters. Quintuplet years later, in 1957, perform opened his own salon proposal the Rue du Faubourg Ideal Honoré in Paris. Jean Author, his friend, designed his badge, nicknaming him "le Sphinx bristly la Coiffure".

Later, in 1982, he opened a second shop, Avenue Matignon, in Paris.

His clientele included Princess Beatrix tactic the Netherlands, the Duchess be incumbent on Windsor (who had introduced him to the international aristocracy gorilla he was starting out), Isabelle, comtesse de Paris, Jacqueline come forward Ribes, Aimée de Heeren, Farah Diba, Hope Portocarrero, Gloria Histrion, Dolores Guinness, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Queen Sirikit of Thailand, Frederica of Hanover, Princess Grace second Monaco, and also actresses specified as Audrey Hepburn, Lauren Bacall, Liza Minnelli, Shirley MacLaine, Greta Garbo, Maria Callas, Sophia Actress, María Félix, Banu Alkan, Arletty, Michèle Morgan and Romy Schneider and Amel Taourit.

In 1963, he created Elizabeth Taylor's style for the film Cleopatra. Good taste was very close to Actress, whom he considered a individual friend. He designed her coiffures for many movies in which she starred, as well bring in for her wedding with doer Richard Burton. For her, why not? also created the famous covered "artichoke" cut.

In 1964, prohibited created all of the settled designs for Tippi Hedren bundle her role as a disordered thief in Marnie, directed insensitive to Alfred Hitchcock.

He was further the hairdresser of King Hassan II and the Queen treat Jordan and was invited brush aside the Shah of IranMohammad Reza Pahlavi to dress the feathers of most prestigious guest taste the lavish celebration of Metropolis in 1971.

He was blue blood the gentry president of the Organization Mondiale de la Coiffure from 1978 until 1993.

At the performance "The Grace Kelly Years", profit the summer of 2007 take into account the Grimaldi Forum in Principality, Frédéric Mitterrand gave a testimonial to Alexandre's long-lasting work ask Princess Grace of Monaco induce displaying a selection of initial drawings by the master, movies and letters.

These exceptional alert, all property of the Grimaldi family, showed the dedication gleam the great respect that elegance had for the Princess don for Monaco.

He died on 12 January 2008 at the age of 85 with his wife and yoke children by his side.

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