Little Faun Face
Jenny Turner: There was Colette, 5 January 2023
‘Chéri’ and ‘The End of Chéri’
by Colette, translated by Paul Eprile.
NYRB, 236 pp., £13.99, November,978 1 68137 670 7 Show More
by Colette, translated by Paul Eprile.
NYRB, 236 pp., £13.99, November,
‘Chéri’ and ‘The End of Chéri’
by Colette, translated by Rachel Careau.
Norton, 336 pp., £21.99, May,978 1 324 05205 0 Show More
by Colette, translated by Rachel Careau.
Norton, 336 pp., £21.99, May,
“... Think Pink!’ Kay Thompson exhorted, playing a singing Diana Vreeland in Funny Face (1957), one of several Hollywood movies of the postwar period set in a pasteboard advent-calendar Paris, with Leslie Caron or Audrey Hepburn as the elegant, monstrously innocent gamine. ‘Pink for shoes! Pink for hose! Pink for gloves and chapeaus!’ The song, disappointingly, fails to mention the special status of Pompadour pink, formulated at Sèvres in 1757 to please Louis XV’s favourite mistress and adviser ... ”