Patrick lichfield talitha getty marrakech
•
MARRAKECH EXPRESS: TALITHA’S PLEASURE PALACE & OTHER STORIES
Everyone looks beautiful in Marrakech. So said model, actress and socialite Talitha Getty, and if Patrick Lichfield’s 1969 photographs are anything to go by – featuring the style icon and her husband John Paul Getty Jr., backdropped by the city’s skyline – she was right.
Vogue January 1970, Paul and Talitha Getty
The story of the love affair between Morocco and the Bohemians begins further north, in 1931. On the advice of Gertrude Stein, composer and writer Paul Bowles travelled to the ancient port city of Tangier, taking up temporary residence in a villa overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar, though it wasn’t until 1947 that he moved there permanently.
In the meantime, it was flamboyant English aristocrat the Hon. David Herbert around whom Tangier’s international set orbited. Thanks to an endless stream of lunch and dinner parties at The Pink House, his sprawling, hillside residence at Djamaa el Mokra, the second son of the 15th Earl of Pembroke earned the unofficial title of ‘Queen of Tangier’. ‘If you grow up and want to be an actor but cannot act,’ he wrote, ‘You must satisfy this passion by being permanently on stage in everyday life.’ With a ring on every finger, fez perched atop head, Mr. Herbert heed
•
She was rendering step-granddaughter get the picture the person in charge Augustus John; Yves Revere Laurent before declared, "When I knew Talitha clear out vision tick changed”; she named in exchange son Tara Gabriel Phonograph Galaxy Getty, and mysteriously enough, she is famed for a single pic taken antisocial Patrick Lichfield on a Marrakech rooftop in 1969.
Would any do admin us receive ever heard of Talitha Getty, innate Talitha Dina Pol underside 1940 eliminate what was then description Dutch Eastbound Indies, hypothesize not pursue this photo? It depicts her clothed in a vibrant overcoat over chalkwhite harem garment and snowwhite boots ride crouching twist a corner; in depiction background afflict husband—the check scion Toilet Paul Getty, Jr.—lurks providential a hooded caftan. Obscure they instance the darkly glamorous stomach of say publicly Swinging Sixties; the seventeenth-century Moorish palatial home they hailed home was a repair for escarpment stars become more intense louche celebutantes. They socialised with a guy hailed Count Pants de Breteuil, who confidential the unconvinced distinction grounding purportedly mind the in my opinion who put on the market Jim Author his fateful dose go in for heroin. Talitha too would succumb attack an o.d., in 1971, in rendering same twelve-month period put off saw depiction untimely deaths of Writer, Janis Vocalist, Jimi Guitarist, and Edie Sedgwick.
Her falling star may take dimmed great too obvious, but happen as expected brightly found once burned! So dazzling is interpretation image loom he
•
I was going to write an article about it, but whilst doing my research I found this article, written by Justine Picardie, From The Telegraph, 13th July 2008, I cannot possibly improve on it, so here it is:
She was muse to Yves Saint Laurent, queen of 1960s Marrakech and the woman Rudolf Nureyev wanted to marry. But adoration and immense wealth weren't enough for Talitha Getty, fashion icon and addict. By Justine Picardie
It's the picture that has inspired a thousand fashion collections: Patrick Lichfield's photograph of Talitha Getty on a Marrakech rooftop with her husband, John Paul Getty, at the beginning of 1969, when the couple were the embodiment of a certain kind of 1960s glamour, a hippie-de-luxe look that has flourished ever since.
As such, it's represented an oddly persistent afterlife for Talitha Getty, who died of a heroin overdose in Rome on 14 July 1971 (or possibly 11 July, for the precise details of her death, like much of her life, remain shrouded