Sophie Rochas Writes Book on Father Marcel Rochas

Sophie Rochas was a daddy’s girl, but her father, designer Marcel Rochas, unfortunately died suddenly of an aneurysm when he was 53 and she was 10. Her relationship with her mother, La belle Hélène, was much shakier, and Hélène sued to block the publication of her daughter’s new book, “Marcel Rochas: Designing French Glamour” (Groupe Flammarion). After Hélène died in 2011, the lawsuit was rendered moot. “It’s completely unfair that he was as forgotten as he was until now,” she says of her father. “The name Rochas is without the Christian name. It’s nothing against my mother; it really has been associated with my father — beauty, elegance that made him famous for years all over the world. I tried as much as possible to be fair.” She writes in the book that he is “a ‘famous unknown,’” adding, “Therein lies a deep injustice that needs to be redressed, and a mystery. My father is numbered among those dead poets whose work has dissolved like footprints in the sand. Yet, it was a huge body of work, developed over 30 years, thanks to two couture houses, hundreds of employees, several thousand designs, a cinema department and thriving accessories and perfume subsidiaries,

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