Victoire DOUTRELEAU, also called only Victoire, née Jeanne DEVIS is a French model, born in 1934, muse of the couturier Christian DIOR in the mid-1950s and then of Yves SAINT LAURENT. Born Jeanne DEVIS, she doesn't know her father. At the age of sixteen, she took drawing lessons, wishing to enter Arts-Déco school; at the same time, she posed for Louis TOUCHAGUES. When friends encourage her to model, she asks TOUCHAGUES for advice, who, enthusiastic, sends her to meet influential Michel de BRUNHOFF to get a letter of recommendation. In the spring of 1953, without even reading Michel de BRUNHOFF's letter, Christian DIOR immediately hired Jeanne: she began her career around the age of eighteen in the couturier's cabin. He renamed her "Victoire" ("Victory"). She is small, for a model, has an hourglass figure, but elegant and sensual, "a mixture of insolence and classicism", she upsets the usual codes of haute couture. Far from the standards of the time in terms of modeling, much younger than her colleagues, her arrival in the house is however very little appreciated. During these years, she went out assiduously in the evenings, notably at the "Bœuf sur le toit" as well as other places of the Parisian nightlife, accompanied by Yves SAINT LAURENT and Karl LAGERFELD, with whom she also went on vacation. “If I had married, I would have married Victoire” once said SAINT LAURENT, who had a very intimate “platonic” relationship with his model. In 1954, DIOR created the “H” line - called Busty Look by the Anglo-Saxon press - on Victoire. Victoire evolves within the fashion house until becoming a "star model", getting interest from the sales of the dresses she presents. But with a few exceptions, after the first collection she presented at a fashion show, the enmity in the house and with customers is strong: most of the other models do not speak to her, the criticisms are numerous. However, the couturier persisted and imposed Victoire for a second collection. After the death of Christian DIOR, Yves SAINT LAURENT, who arrived in 1955 as a simple model maker, took over the haute couture of the house; he presented his “Trapèze” line on January 15, 1958 and was on the cover of the March issue of Paris Match with Victoire in a wedding dress, photographed by Willy RIZZO. Later, it is for her marriage to Roger THEROND that she wears a wedding dress from the same collection. Victoire left the profession shortly after SAINT LAURENT left the Dior house. Yves SAINT LAURENT called her back some time later and she participated in the creation of the couturier's new house. Some time later, she became "director of salons" and responsible for recruiting models. She accompanies him for a few years after the creation of his house in 1962. The accomplice trio formed by Bergé, with whom she has a relationship that she describes as "very sexual" for three years, Saint Laurent and Victoire ends at the time of the spring-summer 1963 collection. Victoire then embarked on her own children's ready-to-wear creations, advised by Karl LAGERFELD and helped by Évelyne PROUVOST. She divorced, then took the name DOUTRELEAU in the early 1970s following her marriage to the painter Pierre DOUTRELEAU, with whom she had two children.