The fact that it fits you, doen’t mean it’s your size.
Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan, former miss France
The fact that it fits you, doen’t mean it’s your size.
Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan, former miss France
Look pretty on the outside. But it doesn’t help if you are ugly on the inside. Unless you can eat make-up.
Begum Om Habibeh ‘Mata Salamat’ Aga Khan
International beauty contest, filmed on August 12, 1930. The scenes include contestants from Germany, England, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Turkey, Russia, The Bronx, New York, Hoboken, New Jersey, United States and France, competing in an international beauty contest, Deauville (France)
With Miss France 1930, Yvette Labrousse – Yvonne Blanche Labrousse – later known as Om Habibeh, the lady of Yakymour the Begum Om Habibeh ‘Mata Salamat’ Aga Khan, fourth and last wife of Sir Sultan Mohammad Shah, Aga Khan III.
Begum Om Habibeh ‘Mata Salamat’ Aga Khan III in the garden of her home Yakymour
We are not given a good life or bad life. We are given a life. It’s up to us to make it good or bad.
Begum Om Habibeh ‘Mata Salamat’ Aga Khan
Former Miss France, Yvette Labrousse, the later Begum Om Habibeh ‘Mata Salamat’ Aga Khan III, photographed by Sam Levin for Roger Flor, Elizabeth Arden
A fragrance that couldn’t exist in a bottle that shouldn’t exist.
HH Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan III in Aswan, February 1, 1964
If you Judge people…..
…….you have no time to love them.
Begum Om Habibeh ‘Mata Salamat’ Aga Khan
Monaco, New Year’s Eve 1956, Her Highness The Begum Aga Khan III and Aristotle Onassis attend a party organised by Monte Carlo SBM to ring in the New Year. As Jean-Gabriel Domergue’s posters said at the time: “Les gens chic sont l’hiver à Monte-Carlo” (“In winter chic people are in Monte-Carlo”).
The Begum Aga Khan III and Aristotle Onassis at New Years Party, Monaco, 1956
Yakymour is wishing you a wonderful and healthy new year. May all optimistic things in life will be yours!
by Jean Amr
Sultan Sir Mohammd Shah Aga Khan III and Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan
I have at last been granted the real and wonderful haven of finding in and with my wife a true union of mind and soul
Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah, Aga Khan III, in his Memoirs ‘World Enough & Time’, page 275
Today, 50 years ago, Sophia Loren and the President of the Cannes Film Festival Jury (right), visits Her Highness The Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan III and her father Adrian Labrousse (left) at the Begum‘s villa Yakymour, Le Cannet, on May 18, 1966.
Her Higness La Bégum used to assemble every year the members of the Cannes film festival jury, and many national and international movie stars.