Edwige Belmore

 ( 2015 Deaths ) 

Edwige went to live with Maud Molyneux and Paquita Paquin, on the rue Vavin in Montparnasse, where she gradually turned into a , shaving her hair and dyeing it platinum blond when it grew back. She spent her nights at Le Sept with Molyneux and Paquin, at Le Bains Douches where she sometimes performed on stage or at La Main Bleue with Paquita and Eva Ionesco.

In 1979, Edwige founded (with Claude Arto) the post-punk synth pop musical group Mathématiques modernes with which she sang and released four albums.[2] Edwige Braun-Belmore She was for a time the doorman/bouncer/promoter of the club Le Palace.

Her meeting with Paloma Picasso introduced her to the world of Andy Warhol and the jet-set. She became friends with Yves Saint Laurent and Loulou de la Falaise. She went to New York for the first time at the end of 1977 and attended the Mudd Club and Studio 54. She returned regularly to New York over the following years, living on Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where she developed a heroin habit.

Edwige modeled for Jean-Paul Gaultier and Thierry Mugler. She was photographed in 1990 by Pierre and Gilles for a work entitled Sainte Gertrude la Grande. "The strong temperament of our model and her boyish appearance went well with the reputation for rigor and austerity of this intellectual and mystical figure that was Gertrude the Great", explains the photographers.