Jacques de Bascher
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Jacques de Bascher was a French dandy and socialite best known for being Karl Lagerfeld's longtime companion. A member of Paris's jet set, de Bascher was also briefly the lover of Yves Saint Laurent.
de Bascher, photographed by Alex Chatelain, c. 1970s
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A dandy is a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance and personal grooming, refined language and leisurely hobbies. A dandy could be a self-made man both in person and persona, w
Jacques de Bascher
…Jacques de Bascher (8 July 1951 – 3 September 1989) was a French dandy and socialite best known for being Karl Lagerfeld's longtime companion. A member of Paris's jet set, de Bascher was also briefly the lover of Yves Saint…
Parisian costumes: The dandies of Paris in 1831.
The British Dandy: Beau Brummell in a double-breasted sportscoat and odd trousers, in 1805. (Richard Dighton).
In The Dandies' Holy of Holies: a man scans an over-sized edition of the novel Pelham: Or, The Adventures of a Gentleman (1828), by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The illustration, by E. J. Sullivan, is from an 1898 edition of the novel Sartor Resartus (1831), by Thomas Carlyle.
The French Dandy: The symbolist poet Robert de Montesquiou (Giovanni Boldini).