Victoire Doutreleau

Doutreleau began working for Christian Dior in the early 1950s, aged 18, and he renamed her as Victoire Doutreleau.^[1] Richard Avedon reportedly said that she had "the most beautiful breasts in the world".^[1] In 1960, she joined YSL after Yves Saint Laurent started his own atelier.^[2]

In 2014, she published a memoir, Et Dior Créa Victoire (And Dior Created Victoire).^[1]

Doutreleau had a three-year relationship with Pierre Bergé.^[1] She was involved in an intense friendship with Yves Saint Laurent at the same time, and was "the only woman the designer considered marrying".^[3][2]