"La Vilaine à prix réduit Lulu" 1967 SAINT LAURENT, Yves

Yves Saint Laurent createdLa Vilaine Lulu, a comic strip depicting a malicious little girl who flouts convention. It was the young couturier's scathing and humorous take on his era, specifying in the introductory à prix réduit note that“toute ressemblance avec des personnes qui existent ou qui ont existé est parfaitement voulue.”He nonetheless aserted that it was out of the question to say“I amla Vilaine Lulu!”

Ten years later, in 1967, the writer Françoise Sagan encouraged Saint Laurent to publish Lulu's adventures with the Éditions Tchou.