Ines de la Fressange has long been the star model for the House of Chanel. France's mayors recently selected her to be Marianne, the symbol of the French Republic.
When she accepted, Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel's chief designer, was ready to disown her.... he says Marianne is ''everything that is boring, bourgeois and provincial.'' ''It is I who made her. She is very beautiful but not photogenic. Now we are looking for sexier models.''
Think I erased my previous comments by mistake; this video tells a lot when Karl and Ines were in good relationship; watch how Karll puts Ines in high pedestal of CHANEL house;
I read in some website the relation became sour as stemmed from Karl over controlling Ines
In todays Chanel books, Ines got only little exposure as one of their past muses; in one book Ines was not included; its just laike erasing the history. sadful
For a fashion documentary... the music, editing and voice over is NOT very impressive!
Qzong8 1 year ago
LOve Karl Lagerfeld...such a amaging designer!
greatworld1979 1 year ago
someone sneezed and hit the thumbs down button
TheAllAwesomeG 1 year ago
the way the woman twirled at 4:00
reminded me of Chanel Iman
214Juan 2 years ago
was that anna piaggi standing hehind karl?
fuckyou1458 2 years ago
they spelled 'fresange' wrong.
VeryTeri 2 years ago
[from NY times, 1989]
Ines de la Fressange has long been the star model for the House of Chanel. France's mayors recently selected her to be Marianne, the symbol of the French Republic.
When she accepted, Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel's chief designer, was ready to disown her.... he says Marianne is ''everything that is boring, bourgeois and provincial.'' ''It is I who made her. She is very beautiful but not photogenic. Now we are looking for sexier models.''
sethivarova 2 years ago 2
Think I erased my previous comments by mistake; this video tells a lot when Karl and Ines were in good relationship; watch how Karll puts Ines in high pedestal of CHANEL house;
I read in some website the relation became sour as stemmed from Karl over controlling Ines
In todays Chanel books, Ines got only little exposure as one of their past muses; in one book Ines was not included; its just laike erasing the history. sadful
rullywintour 2 years ago
what happened between them?
celeblover123 2 years ago
Inesse (or whoever she is) had Russian accent
MalvinaOrlova 2 years ago