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Their marriage was the envy of friends and relatives, until it ended in bloodshed Friday morning, violence that seemed to come out of nowhere. Paul Truss had a sister who was killed by her husband about a decade ago in Kansas City. So Paul "knew that kind of pain," said Angela Monroe, a longtime friend. She was in disbelief that the man she recalled growing up with attending a Pentecostal church in Kansas City, Kan., and later asking to be her child's godfather, would kill his wife, Chantille, and then take his own life. "I know things don't just happen. I'm sure there's something, but to most people in their lives, they were just that couple," Monroe said. "Turbulence" had been building in the

There was never a shortage of waify muses wandering through Paris in the Sixties and Seventies, but Loulou de la Falaise always stood apart from the rest. Even when she was in her fifties, the New Yorker declared her to have "always been the quintessential Rive Gauche haute bohémienne." Born Louise Vava Lucia Henriette Le Bailly de La Falaise, in England, to a count and a former model—the latter of whom the photographer Cecil Beaton famously said was the only English woman he knew who could be "really chic in really hideous clothes"—de la Falaise was part of high society. But she was also always a hard worker. After becoming a model, designer, and editor in New York, which led her to meet Yves Saint Laurent , she moved to Paris in the early Seventies to join the YSL couture team and become director of accessories. Along the way, she became a core member of his original, party-hard crew . And though she passed away in 2011, de la Falaise has hardly been forgotten; she's in fact now the subject of Loulou & Yves : The Untold Story of Loulou de La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent , a new oral history written and compiled by Christopher Petkanas , who knew de la Falaise in the Eighties, and reunited with her in 2010, the year before her death at just 64. Featuring 150 original interviews, the book fleshes out how much more there was to de la Falaise than simply being Saint Laurent's muse. Here, a look back at her inimitable style throughout the years.