![]() Boldini was the painter of La Belle Epoque. Her face, if not beautiful by today’s standards, is striking to say the least, more so in the photos than in the painting by Giovanni Boldini. For me, Cleo is the Moon Child of La Belle Epoque. Whenever I see a photo of Cleo (and I do see it a lot since it’s on my bedroom wall) I instantly think of that sixties cosmetics add and that’s why I decided to put the ‘Moon Child’ in the title. I found a similar look in a September 1968 drawing ‘Moon Shiny’ for the Baby Doll cosmetics. Instead of wearing her hair up like every decent woman would do at the time, Cleo wore her hair down, decorated with a jewelled hairpiece. One of it being the choice of hairstyle, which you’ll see in the photos below. Men lusted after her, and women were envious of her bold fashion and lifestyle choices. Likewise, beautiful Cleo – with oval face framed with masses of thick endlessly long and shiny raven black hair, almond shaped dark exotic eyes – often appeared on postcards, posters and playing cards. Although Brigitte Bardot acted in many films, her popularity throughout Europe in the Swinging Sixties was more due to her beauty, lifestyle and sex appeal. Both studied ballet from an early age, both possessed beauty and charm appealing to the age they lived in, both had numerous affairs interesting to the public eye, and they share a zodiac sign – Libra, Cleo being born on the 27th and Bardot on the 28th September. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is my opinion that Cleo was equal in beauty and fame to Brigitte Bardot, a fellow French femme fatale. Her full name, Cléopatra Diane de Mérode, seems to have been made for a star. La Belle Epoque dancer and a famous beauty Cleo de Merode was born in Paris on 27 September 1875, in times just after the Franco-Prussian war, when the Impressionists were chatting, quarrelling and sketching in Parisian cafes. September is nearing its end, it’s the 27th already, and it is also the birth date of Cleo de Merode, the famous French Belle Epoque dancer and beauty. ![]()
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