EDITOR'S REVIEW
Written by one of our contributors, Juliet Weir-de La Rouchefoucauld, the magical coffee table book Lydia Courteille: Extraordinary Jewellery of Imagination and Dreams is part biography, part retrospective. Tracing the designer’s roots from her birth as Liliane Schoonjans, through her inquisitive teenage years and early career as a fashion designer, to the present day, Courteille pays homage to her home city of Paris and describes fortuitous encounters with experts, editors, designers and influencers, including fashion heavyweights Karl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent, within its pages. Peppered with candid shots of Lydia through the years, the latter part of the book takes you on a magical journey through this avant-garde designer’s weird and wonderful world, from her earliest creations all the way through to the 2016 Queen of Sheba collection, encountering skeletons, crocodiles, chimps, sultans and roosters along the way.
