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“... in the Place du Palais Bourbon, and has long been edited by a handsome woman of diplomatic family, Edmonde Charles-Roux. When I was Brogue’s features editor, Frog still revolved around the couture collections; Frog being frog and grand, Condé Nast’s photographers had first and private access to the collections. Though I had nothing to do with ...”

“... who smell this to keep enough wits about them to worry about the parts. Before Coco Chanel, as Edmonde Charles-Roux writes in her 1975 biography, women (and men) who wore perfume were generally forced to choose between various floral concoctions – heliotrope, gardenia, violets – none of which lasted well. ‘Therefore you had to be overperfumed at ...”

“... ruthless, solitary, femme du monde, perfectionist. Her almost mythic status can be appreciated in Edmonde Charles-Roux’s description of her at the end of her life, an old woman of 80 who looked like a bitter girl and who dressed, always and marvellously, in the full panoply of suit, blouse, pearls, chains, two-tone pumps and straw hat, a style which ...”