Michèle Lamy, culture and fashion figure, and Rick Owen’s wife

With Iris Apfel in the last photo.

I saw comments on the Olsen thread asking who she was and I felt old.

[Wiki excerpts](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mich%C3%A8le_Lamy)

– Lamy was born in 1944 in Jura, France.

– In 1979, Lamy moved to New York and then settled in Los Angeles, where she set up a fashion line and ran two cult restaurants/nightclubs – Café des Artistes and Les Deux Cafés in 1996 with her first husband, experimental filmmaker Richard Newton. With her tattooed fingers and gold-plated teeth, she was an emblematic figure of nightlife in Los Angeles in the middle of 90s. Her tattoos were inspired by the Berbers, during her first trip to Tunisia when she was around 17 or 18 years old.

In 1984, Lamy created a clothing line called Lamy. She hired Rick Owens, who later became her business partner and, then, her companion and husband. In 2003, Lamy and Owens left Los Angeles to settle in Paris and got married in 2006.

– Lamy produces the furniture that bears the Owens brand. She also designs jewelry with Loree Rodkin and has appeared in FKA twigs and Black Asteroid music videos. She formed the band LAVASCAR with the artist Nico Vascellari and her daughter Scarlett Rouge.

– At the 2016 Venice Biennale, Lamy transformed an old container ship into a floating saloon. The same year, she recorded songs with her good friend, rapper A$AP Rocky. Rocky said about Lamy, “Hardly anyone knows how important you have been behind the scenes for my career. You did not just design my album covers, you took me to art fairs and showed me the art world.”

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