Katell le bourhis biography wikipedia

She brings cerebral focus to glamour, and she brings elegance to the most desiccated of intellectual arguments. She gives the foil of substance to what is light and amusing, and she finds the comedy in what is dreadful and incomprehensible. Katell lives at the elusive point where what is different about things is subsumed by what is the same about them, and it is this energetically universal vision that makes you feel, when you are with her, that anything is possible, that anything, indeed, is likely.

Her apartment in New York is also a matter of between: full of beautiful things but also a bit dilapidated, rather comfortable but also quite casual. A woman should be comfortable knowing that her clothes make her look great. The view across Central Park and the reservoir is the focus. If only they had a real Poussin blue as well! This one was a gift from Yves Saint Laurent.

This one is Valentino, copied from a Savonnerie carpet. I keep things out for a little while, and when I am tired of them, I put them away. Then when I find I miss them, I take them out again and put away some other things. We all learn to read at school, and then we never need to be alone again. Books are the great equalizer; they are for us all.

The curator was Katell Le Bourhis.

Katell le Bourhis was educated in France and in the United States. Vreeland, whom I esteemed so much, trusted me entirely, and I felt that her trust was an extraordinary event in my life, something on which I could not turn my back. I have seen Katell emerge from the Met at eleven at night flushed with excitement because she had won the battle for a pair of gloves or a fan or a petticoat which she knew would make her exhibition perfect.