Tribute to the beautiful Renee Perle 
A face like his is not easily forgotten, I knew Jacques Henri Lartigue famous French photographer who in the thirties, made it his muse and he knows the English designer John Galliano, his unique style and refined, with the inspiration for some collections. Renee had the charm of "Femme Fatale", the wild sensuality that recalls the heroines of dangerous Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain, although women with a magnetic look a little tired, that snapped the life with the voracity of a lion to the tragic end. Jacques Henri Lartigue called it an "Angel" with the heart shaped mouth and the eye of a diva. For she lost her head, to the point of making its epicenter photo. It is said that when he met for the first time in a 'Embassy Rue de la Pompe in Paris, March 7, 1930, saw her in "something magical". The sun-toasted skin and black hair led him to believe that he was Mexican. Renée smiled, showing a row of teeth straight and white as the keys of a piano, said, "are Romanians." The photographer wrote in the private diary 'time of their meeting, the 17:35.
That evening they went to dance el 'man was surprised by his size: "Her mouth full small," he wrote as a prey to stun "touches my chin. A cloud perfume emerges from his fur collar. " And 'As far as we know the shape of this enigmatic femme fatale, of unknown place and date of birth. Maybe he left Romania for France in search of fortune or because forced to flee from 'oppressive racial hatred that was sweeping Europe at the expense of the Jewish community in which Rene was a member. In Paris he worked as a model at the Maison Doeuillet, a of the most famous Parisian couture 's century. She was tall, thin, in a word "delicious" and had the "long slender hands, female" who captured the 'attention of Jacques Henri. They were expressive hands that filled the click of mystery in the clink of rings and bracelets, jewelry Renee peferiva wear.
A few months later, in June of that year, when the passion between the two was now blossomed, Jacques Henri confidence sank to a deep,
expressing the "state of grace "in the 'man enjoyed at the hips, was a happiness without limits. While the photographer down in the gardens of 'hotel from which guests were to paint a few hours, Rene was waiting for him in the room, combing her hair, choosing the clothes to wear makeup or just a sweet bite. Jacques Henri liked to imagine those moments as a gentle prelude to 'love. He writes about that "Renee is in excess of any woman, so fascinating and mysterious as to fade the memory of others."
In Paris, the beautiful Renee team to a modeling career as an artist, it seems that loved to paint, taking a lead partner. Unfortunately, none of the paintings she created has survived today, but critics argue that his work had a strong Naif, a genre that Perle estimated much. Those who knew her claimed that she 's used to portray "infinitely" his face, a growing' obsession with art for its image that today we would call a narcissistic attitude. In reality the 'self-portrait could be seen as a way to know oneself, a sort of introspection "aesthetic" and intimate with which the' artist scrutinizes and judges the right to be. Even Lartigue, of course, did not fail to portray the face of Kidney with soft strokes of color condense that, realistically, all its beauty, but the photographs are, without doubt, the most beautiful tribute that with which, as a man infatuated, tributes his muse.
The story of 'love lasted two years, but their relationship remained balance over time. Lartigue not never denied what was written in the diary, in old age, in interviews, he spoke with Renee the same dreamy air and the same awe of youth. Renée had a winning personality of independent women, his taste in fact dictated style fashion, it is said that such was the first woman to wear a T-shirt in public, complete with sleeves rolled up to the "James Dean" with the 'exception that the fifties were still far away. Also loved to dress comfortable, masculine flavor: baggy pants and tank tops, embellished with eye-catching hats, ethnic jewelry and painted nails, a trademark style of a true icon.
Renée Perle died in 1977 during a stay in the South of France. Jacques Henri Lartigue followed nine years later, on September 12, 1986, all 'age of ninety years. It remains a picture that shows them together, probably while they were on holiday in Biarritz. Young, beautiful and very reminiscent of a couple in love altrettando famous of those years, a writer and his muse at the height of happiness just before the tragic whirlwind of a 'disorderly existence devour them both: Francis Scott Fitzgerald and the beautiful Zelda Sayre.
