Warhol’s Parisian Factory: Evicted from Three Hotels and Living on Borrowed Apartments During L'Amour Shoot

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Warhol’s Parisian Factory: Evicted from Three Hotels and Living on Borrowed Apartments During L'Amour Shoot

L'Amour (1972) / 1970s

The production of L'Amour captured the Factory’s famous mixture of glamour and disorder when Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol decamped to Paris for a month-long shoot in October–November 1970. According to contemporaneous accounts, Warhol’s entourage — including Warhol superstars Jane Forth, Donna Jordan and others, plus designers and hangers-on — were repeatedly evicted from three separate hotels during the production, a testament to their unruly, freewheeling lifestyle. Rather than shut down the shoot, the company improvised: Karl Lagerfeld, who appears briefly in the film, lent Warhol and company his apartment for set work, and another flat was borrowed through Brigid Berlin’s circle. The result was a patchwork production geography — hotel rooms, designer apartments and borrowed flats — that reads like a vignette from Factory lore and underlines how the group’s partying, social notoriety and laissez-faire approach to logistics directly shaped the chaotic, improvisational look of the movie.