Alain Coblence, an attorney who represented numerous high-profile designers, has died.
As a cultured Parisian transplant in New York City, he got to know several fashion industry executives, including Condé Nast’s dominating creative force for decades Alexander Liberman and his wife Tatiana Yacovleff du Plessix. Liberman connected the 27-year-old lawyer with’s business partner Pierre Bergé, who was in search of representation Stateside, and that business alliance was the start of a deep friendship.
Diane von Furstenberg recalled Monday how she first met Coblence through Lieberman and knew him forever. “Alain was a very reassuring figure between America and Paris. Of course, he was’s and Pierre Bergé’s trusted man as their lawyer. Alain was this very Franco-American man, who everybody trusted and was very involved in fashion.”
Madison Cox, Bergé’s widower and president of the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent, recalled first meeting Coblence at his glamorous Central Park South apartment. Very handsome and charismatic, Coblence had “this incredible passion for classic music, opera and theater” that he shared with Bergé, Cox said. “At the same time, he had this incredible legal mind, which is quite rare, especially in the field of law.
Early on in his career, Coblence worked on the 1974 Supreme Court case of CBS vs. Teleprompter Corp., which gave way to the rise of cable television. In 1975, he was admitted to the New York Bar, and that same year he opened his own practice with offices in New York and Paris. In addition to Yves Saint Laurent, Coblence catered to French corporate clients such as Gaumant, Bocuse Vergé and Lenôtre who were seeking representation in the U.S.
A tireless worker who preferred to work independently than to hire more associates for support, Coblence worked with such designers as Azzedine Alaïa,
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