Consider this a paean to the accomplishments of a woman who, by her own account, has never accomplished a thing. “I’m the laziest person in the world,” Betty Catroux says, a statement as accurate as ...

In 1967, designer Yves Saint Laurent met his match in Betty Catroux, a young émigré from Brazil who was then half-heartedly working as a model for Coco Chanel in Paris. Laurent and Catroux drowned ...

THE YSL OG: “It’s not to me you should be saying ‘bravo’ but to Anthony [Vaccarello],” said Betty Catroux as guests applauded as she arrived at the opening of “Betty Catroux, Yves Saint Laurent, ...

Betty Catroux does not like the term “muse” but if anyone embodies this word, it is she, albeit with her own unique spin. Catroux’s louche androgynous style - never overtly sexy yet hugely desirable ...

PARIS — “You know, I don’t remember much about the nights,” confessed Betty Catroux, rifling through a rack of clothes from her vast collection of Yves Saint Laurent outfits. The late couturier’s muse ...

IT’S RAINING MEN: It was a man’s world in Paris on Monday night, as the Société des Amis du Musée d’Orsay held its annual fundraising gala around an exhibition of Gustave Caillebotte’s work titled ...

Some 100 lots from the final, and very personal home the renowned French designer François Catroux decorated for himself and his wife, Betty, will be auctioned next month at Sotheby’s. Throughout his ...

He has designed castle interiors for the Rothschilds, yacht interiors for Barry Diller, and an apartment for David Geffen. Now, for a few million, you could own a residential creation by François ...

Immediately prior to his death in November 2020, legendary designer François Catroux completed his last interior—an apartment for himself and his wife Betty Catroux in Nice, France. (Betty, notably, ...