Friday, April 22, 2011

There is something about... Ines de la Fressange





Women are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age


Inès de La Fressange (born 11 August 1957), is a French model. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1998.
Tall 180 cm (5'11") and with a weight of 50 kg (110 lbs), in the 1980s, she became the first model to sign an exclusive modeling contract with an haute couture fashion house, Chanel, by fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, whose muse she became. However, in 1989, Lagerfeld and De la Fressange had an argument and parted company. Likely this argument was, at least in part, regarding her decision to lend her likeness to a bust of Marianne, the ubiquitous symbol of the French Republic. Lagerfeld reputedly condemned her decision, saying that Marianne was the embodiment of "everything that is boring, bourgeois, and provincial" and that he would not dress up historic monuments. They reunited as she walked the Chanel spring summer 2011 show. (Source)











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