Where the quintessential coupling of beauty and tragedy are concerned, you would be hard-pressed to find many who could hold a candle to Talitha Getty. The actress, Yves Saint Laurent muse, and wife of John Paul Getty, Jr. died of a heroin overdose at the age of 30, but not before cementing a now-ubiquitous standard of luxe bohemianism. The Gettys’ Marrakech home (dubbed, aptly, “the Pleasure Palace”) played host to the likes of The Rolling Stones, and the jet-setting duo were famously photographed on its roof in Patrick Lichfield’s now-iconic shot, looking every bit like a pair of doomed romantics, she in brocade and cream leather boots, he in a hooded abaya.
Getty’s nomadic, lush wardrobe of caftans, poet’s blouses, bangles, and babouches continues to stoke fire in the imaginations of designers season after season; indeed, if moodboards are any indication, that 1969 Lichfield snap hasn’t aged a bit in the intervening years. And today, in honor of the late icon’s birthday, we’re rounding up five looks that embody a bit of her bewitching brand of glamour. Shop them all below.
