THE MYSTERY OF MICHELE LAMY & RICK OWENS

WHO (THE HELL) IS
MICHELE LAMY?

Michèle Lamy, connector of people, ideas, influences, subcultures. Entrepreneur, visionary, style icon, band leader, curator, polymath octogenarian. All nubby silver rings, kohl-shadowed eyes, gold-plated teeth and Berber-esque tattoos. Born in Jura, France in 1944, Lamy has lived many lives, from cabaret dancer to defense lawyer, fashion designer, and in 1990s Los Angeles, restaurant and nightclub owner—the perfect milieu for her innate ability to throw a fantastic party. Lamy is perhaps best known as the business partner and muse of her husband Rick Owens—these days she’s focused on producing his line of furniture, imposing and minimalist, carved from huge slabs of rare veinless marble or assembled from plywood, bronze and moose antlers. Though “artist” is how many might describe her, she considers herself a storyteller.

With her incredibly receptive and fearless spirit, she is a conduit of art and nurturer of ideas (“Lamyland” is the catchall she uses for her eclectic output). Forward-looking with a can-do attitude, Lamy has always been plugged into the heart of culture and in kinship across generations and disciplines, working with artists such as A$AP Rocky, Christeene, Ghetto Gastro, Marina Abramović, Juergen Teller, Kim Kardashian, and Jordan Wolfson.

 

 

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