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    Recent pieces in such publications as "Vanity Fair" and the New York Times' Fall Fashion Supplement have taken a look at the life of the late and unconventional fashion maven Isabella Blow. It's occurred to me that she was a fine illustration of an admiring French term that might be idiomatically translated as "attractively unattractive." What is that term?

    Question #84961. Asked by lanfranco. (Aug 26 07 7:57 PM)


    zbeckabee

    		Here is some discussion on "jolie laide" or "belle laide."


    http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-5576,00.html

    Aug 26 07, 8:08 PM
    zbeckabee

    		Or is it "mignon-moche" or "mouchoir-pouchoir?"


    Same Link

    Aug 26 07, 8:18 PM
    lanfranco

    		"Jolie-laide" is what I had in mind, zbeck. I own only one Philip Treacy hat, and you can't have it, but I might be able to locate a silver effigy of Diana Vreeland in my vault ....


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Blow

    Aug 26 07, 8:52 PM

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