Katoucha Niane, French model and actress (died 2008)

Katoucha Niane

Guinean model, activist and author

Katoucha Niane was a Guinean model, activist and author. Nicknamed "The Peul Princess", she worked, and later wrote, under the single name "Katoucha". She was known as the muse of Yves Saint Laurent during the 1980s.