What wonderful women!. Elena Rai

muse of the poet could seduce the master of French fashion, who later showed her great sympathy. With the famous French fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent, Lilya met when she was 84, in Sheremetyevo. Waiting for boarding on a Paris flight, Laurent paid attention to a stylish stranger in a green coat from Dior in a crowd of unsightly women. Acquaintance became a close friendship. Outfits created by the master of high fashion special for her appeared in Lilya’s wardrobe. In honour of the 85th anniversary of his Russian friend, he arranged a dinner in a Parisian restaurant and sewed for her a gorgeous dress of velvet and taffeta especially for this occasion. Lilya followed fashion and updated her wardrobe, not afraid of experimenting with clothes and looks. She dressed in Parisian outfits at that time when the whole country wore “Bolshevik” factory clothes. She drove her own car, being the second female driver after the French Ambassador’s wife in Moscow. The walls of her room was painted in blue to set off her white skin and Golden hair.

      Such women are born rarely. They leave behind a deep trace, going far into history. She had something that no one woman had. All her life, even in old ages, Lilya Brick remained the center of attraction for men. A beautician, who knew Lilya Brick at the age of fifty, said, “Her skin was glowing like a light bulb inside