Left Bank vs. Right Bank: A Guide to Parisian Style Icons on Both Sides of Town Inline

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    Photographed by Irving Penn, Vogue, September 1, 1950
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    WHO: Bettina

    FAMOUS FOR: Being a muse to Jacques Fath and Givenchy. Wore fifties couture like a queen, dated Prince Aly Khan.

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    Photographed by Horst P. Horst, Vogue, February 15, 1970
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    WHO: Betty Catroux

    FAMOUS FOR: Being a muse and model to Yves Saint Laurent. She had an androgynous allure, and the designer called her his “twin.”

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    WHO: Capucine

    FAMOUS FOR: Her perfect bone structure, she successfully transitioned from modeling to acting, starring opposite Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther.

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    WHO: Carole Bouquet

    FAMOUS FOR: Having the ability to segue from being a Chanel frontwoman to a Bond girl without ruffling a perfectly placed hair.

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    WHO: Catherine Deneuve

    FAMOUS FOR: Playing the bored bourgeois housewife in Belle de Jour, among other stellar roles. This French legend needs no introduction and has been referenced by almost every major designer in the last 40 years.

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    Photographed by Horst P. Horst, Vogue, October 1, 1968
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    WHO: Hélène Rochas

    FAMOUS FOR: Becoming a bouffant-wearing mogul in her own right after the death of her designer husband.

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    WHO: Ines de la Fressange

    FAMOUS FOR: Her patrician beauty, she was chosen to represent France as Marianne and was a longtime muse of Karl Lagerfeld.

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    Photographed by Horst P. Horst, Vogue, August 1, 1953
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    WHO: Jacqueline, Comtesse de Ribes

    FAMOUS FOR: Her sculpted profile and her successful foray into fashion design.

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    WHO: Marie-Hélène de Rothschild (left)

    FAMOUS FOR: Becoming the queen of sixties French society.

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    Photographed for Vogue, November 1, 1988
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    WHO: Pauline de Rothschild

    FAMOUS FOR: Her unerring sense of style. A one-time fashion designer, she became known for creating dramatic interiors when not helping to run her husband’s vineyard or translating Elizabethan poetry.

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    Photo: Pascal Chevallier, Vogue, March 2013
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    WHO: Victoire de Castellane

    FAMOUS FOR: Being able to trace her family tree back to the tenth century. Castellane is the head of Dior Joaillerie and is known for her large-scale, eye-catching Surrealistic pieces.