The Selby is a site featuring photographs, paintings and videos by Todd Selby of interesting people and their creative spaces. Recently he had a look at Inès de la Fressange’s workplace in Paris:
Via Wikipedia: In the 1980s, Inès de la Fressange 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. In 1989, Lagerfeld and De la Fressange parted company, partly because of 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.
Today, at age 51, she is a businesswoman with a chain of clothing boutiques, a designer, and a consultant for Jean-Paul Gaultier. She’s apparently also a confirmed Frogsmoker:
