ProfileInès Marie Lætitia Églantine Isabelle de Seignard de La Fressange (born 11 August 1957), is a French model, aristocrat, style icon, fashion designer and perfumer. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1998. Inès de Seignard de La Fressange dite Inès de La Fressange, née le 11 août 1957 à Gassin, dans le Var, est un ancien mannequin français des années 1980, égérie de Chanel, créatrice styliste de mode, de bijoux et de parfums, femme d'affaires et journaliste de mode pour le magazine Marie-Claire. BiographyLa Fressange was born in Gassin, Var, France, the daughter of André de Seignard, Marquis de La Fressange, a French stockbroker, and his wife, the former Cecilia "Lita" Sánchez-Davila, an Argentine-Colombian model who is closely related to two former presidents of Colombia, Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo and Alfonso Lopez Michelsen. Her family on her father's side comes from an old French nobility, and had the seigneury of Fressange in the Velay in Auvergne. Her grandmother, the Marquise Simone de La Fressange, née Lazard, was heiress to the Lazard banking fortune (Banque Lazard). She married two ministers in succession, Maurice Petsche, and then Louis Jacquinot after the death of her first husband. Ines grew up in an 18th-century mill outside Paris with two brothers, Emmanuel, the eldest, and her younger brother, Ivan. She studied at the Tournelle Institution in Courgent, then at the Notre-dame de Mantes-la-Jolie Institution in the Yvelines where she got her baccalaureate at the age of 16, and then went to the L'École du Louvre in Paris. Tall at 180 cm (5'11") and with a weight of 50 kg (110 lb), she began her career as a model in 1974 at the age of 17. She quickly became nicknamed by many as "the talking mannequin", due to her tendency to talk with fashion journalists and express her opinions on her profession and on fashion. In 1975, at the age of 18, La Fressange appeared for the first time in photos by Oliviero Toscani for Elle magazine, then modelled for Thierry Mugler and other designers. In 1983 she signed an exclusive modeling contract with the haute couture fashion house, Chanel, by fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld due to her remarkable resemblance to the brand's founder, Coco Chanel, who died in 1971. She was the first model to sign an exclusivity contract with a fashion house and the first model to become a big media personality and popular figure in fashion history, a symbol of the 1980s due to her omnipresence. In 1989, however, Lagerfeld terminated the contract with La Fressange after she decided to lend her likeness to a bust of Marianne, the ubiquitous symbol of the French Republic. Lagerfeld reputedly condemned her decision, saying that he would not dress up historic monuments. On 9 June 1990, in Tarascon, France, Inès La Fressange married Italian nobleman Luigi d'Urso (1951–2006), who was an Italian railroad executive. Luigi was the son of Don Alessandro d'Urso, and his wife, Donna Clothilde Serra dei Duchi di Cassano, daughter of Don Luigi Serra, 9th Duke di Cassano, and Elizabeth Grant; and descendant of George Clymer, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, who signed both the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the United States Constitution in 1787). The couple had two daughters, Nine Marie d'Urso (born 27 February 1994) and Violette Marie d'Urso (born 6 August 1999). She also has two stepdaughters, Clotilde d'Urso and India d'Urso, the daughters of Luigi d'Urso by his first wife, Guendalina Levier. In 1991, with the financial support of the luxury brand, Orcofi, she created her own brand 'Inès de la Fressange' and opened her own Boutique. It was an immediate success not only in France, but also in the USA and in Japan. In December 1999, due to equity dilution, she was made redundant from her own company in which she was not a majority shareholder, her majority co-shareholders insisting it was because she had designed a pill-dispenser for the 'Elixir of Abbé Soury'. She lost the rights to use her name and personal brand, which she fought five consecutive years for in court without any success. In 2002, La Fressange joined Roger Vivier to help develop its boutiques and became the brand's ambassador. The same year she published her autobiography, Profession Mannequin cowritten with Marianne Mairesse, journalist of magazine Marie-Claire. In 2006, her husband Luigi d'Urso died frrom heart attack, after which La Fressange became godmother of l'Association Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque, the association which allows the children from unprivileged countries to come to France to have heart surgery. Three years after the death of her husband, La Fressange started her life with Denis Olivennes, the boss of Europe 1. In 2010, she wrote La Parisienne, a style guide with journalist Sophie Gachet, which became a best seller in 20 countries, selling more than 500,000 copies. In 2013, thanks to the repurchase of her brand by Fabrice Boé, director of the publishing house Prisma Media, La Fressange was able to finally take artistic control of her name and her brand. In 2014, she started to collaborate with Japanese retailer Uniqlo and created multiple collections for the brand. BiographieInès de La Fressange est née dans une famille de la noblesse française subsistante anoblie en 1439. Elle est la fille d'André de Seignard de La Fressange, conseiller en investissements et de Cecilia Sánchez-Cirez, d'origine argentine, (proche parente des deux présidents de la République de Colombie Alfonso López Pumarejo et Alfonso López Michelsen) qui devint mannequin, défilant pour Guy Laroche "afin de payer ses séances de psychanalyse chez Jacques Lacan". Sa famille paternelle, issue de l'ancienne noblesse française, possédait la seigneurie de La Fressange, dans le Velay, en Auvergne, sur la commune de Saint-Didier-en-Velay. Sa grand-mère, née Simone Lazard, de la famille de banquiers (Banque Lazard), devint à son premier mariage la « marquise » Paul de La Fressange. Après la mort de son mari, elle épousa successivement Maurice Petsche puis Louis Jacquinot, deux ministres. Inès de La Fressange a un frère aîné Emmanuel et un frère cadet, Ivan. Elle est écolière à l’institution de la Tournelle de Courgent, puis élève à l’institut Notre-Dame de Mantes-la-Jolie dans les Yvelines où elle obtient son Baccalauréat à seize ans avant d'entrer à l’École du Louvre à Paris. Elle débute en 1975 à l'âge de dix-sept ans une carrière de mannequin. Elle est vite surnommée par certains « le mannequin qui parle », en raison de sa propension à discuter en plein défilé avec les journalistes présents et à afficher ses opinions sur son métier et sur la mode. La même année, photographiée par Oliviero Toscani elle apparaît pour la première fois dans le magazine Elle, puis défile pour Thierry Mugler et d'autres couturiers. De 1983 à 1989, Karl Lagerfeld la choisit comme égérie de la maison de haute couture Chanel à Paris eu égard à sa remarquable ressemblance physique avec Coco Chanel fondatrice de la maison Chanel, disparue en 1971. Elle est le premier mannequin à signer un contrat d'exclusivité avec une maison de haute couture et à devenir une star ultra médiatisée et populaire de l'histoire de la mode, véritable icone des années 1980 par son omniprésence. Elle est choisie en 1989 comme modèle du buste de Marianne, symbole de la Nation dans toutes les mairies françaises. En raison de son contrat d'exclusivité, Karl Lagerfeld lui demande de refuser de poser en Marianne déclarant « Je ne veux pas habiller un monument, c'est trop vulgaire ! ». Inès pose tout de même. Son contrat est cassé après une bataille judiciaire. À 33 ans, elle épouse le 19 juin 1990 à Tarascon Luigi d’Urso, un homme d'affaires et marchand d'art italien (c'est lui qui a lancé en France la mode des mocassins à picots), avec lequel elle aura deux filles : Nine Marie, née le 27 février 1994, et Violette Marie, née le 6 août 1999. En 1991, associée financièrement avec le groupe de luxe Orcofi, elle crée sa griffe, « Inès de la Fressange » installe et ouvre sa propre boutique de prêt-à-porter, d'articles divers et de parfums à l'endroit même où habitait son grand-père, au 12 de l'avenue Montaigne dans le 8e arrondissement de Paris. Le succès est immédiat en France comme aux États-Unis et au Japon. En décembre 1999, en raison d'une dilution du capital, elle est licenciée de sa propre société dont elle n'est pas actionnaire majoritaire, ses coactionnaires majoritaires prenant le prétexte qu'elle avait dessiné un pilulier pour la Jouvence de l'Abbé Soury. Elle perd les droits d’usage de ses nom, prénom et image qu'elle tente de recouvrer tout au long de cinq ans d'un vain combat judiciaire, la Cour de cassation, censurant un arrêt de la cour d'appel de Paris du 15 décembre 2004, déclarant son action irrecevable . En octobre 2002, chez Hachette Littérature, elle publie son autobiographie : Profession Mannequin coécrite avec Marianne Mairesse, journaliste au magazine Marie-Claire. En 2002, avec Bruno Frisoni comme directeur artistique, elle rejoint la marque Roger Vivier pour prendre en charge l'aménagement des boutiques de cette maison et en devenir l'ambassadrice. En 2013, elle a préfacé un livre sur l'univers Roger Vivier aux éditions Rizzoli1. Le 23 mars 2006, son mari Luigi d'Urso meurt d'un malaise cardiaque à son domicile à l'âge de 55 ans. Inès de La Fressange soutient l'action de l'Association Orphelinats d'Afrique. Elle est aussi la marraine de l'Association Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque, association qui permet à des enfants de pays défavorisés de venir se faire opérer du cœur en France. Pour ses 50 ans, elle fait la une de couverture de l'hebdomadaire Elle (no 3240 du 4 février 2008). Depuis 2009, elle est en couple avec Denis Olivennes, ancien patron de la Fnac puis du Nouvel Obs et de fin 2010 à l'été 2017, d'Europe 1. Elle coécrit en 2010 « La Parisienne » (best-seller paru dans vingt pays) avec la journaliste Sophie Gachet. Elle reçoit le 22 janvier 2010 la médaille de Vermeil de la Ville de Paris. En 2013, Inès de La Fressange retrouve l'usage de la marque qui porte son nom, 14 ans après en avoir été écartée. Elle reprend la direction artistique de sa griffe, grâce au rachat de cette dernière par de nouveaux investisseurs rassemblés par Fabrice Boé, directeur de la publication chez Prisma Media. En mars 2014, elle signe une collection pour Uniqlo. La même année, la marque Inès de la Fressange collabore également avec Citroën sur la DS 3, partenariat reconduit en 2017. En 2015, elle est nommée aux Globes de Cristal dans la catégorie Meilleur créateur de mode. Le 5 mars 2015, elle lance une Newsletter : « La Lettre d'Inès ». Further interestArticles
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Iman Abdulmajid (born Zara Mohamed Abdulmajid; Somali: Zara Maxamed Cabdulmajiid; 25 July 1955) is a Somali-American fashion model, actress and entrepreneur. A muse of designers Gianni Versace, Thierry Mugler, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan and Yves Saint Laurent, she is also noted for her philanthropic work. She is the widow of English rock musician David Bowie, whom she married in 1992. Iman was born Zara Mohamed Abdulmajid in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. She was later renamed Iman at her grandfather's urging. Iman is the daughter of Mariam and Mohamed Abdulmajid. Her father is a diplomat and a former Somali ambassador to Saudi Arabia, and her mother was a gynecologist. Iman is Muslim and she has four siblings. Iman lived with her grandparents during her formative years. At age four she was sent to boarding school in Egypt, where she spent most of her childhood and adolescence. Following political unrest in Somalia, Iman's father moved the family back to the country. At his behest, she and her mother and siblings subsequently traveled to Kenya and were later joined by her father and younger sister. Iman was first married at age 18 to Hassan, a young Somali entrepreneur and Hilton hotelier executive. She studied political science at the University of Nairobi for a brief period in 1975. She is fluent in five languages: Somali, Arabic, Italian, French, and English. While still at university, Iman was discovered by American photographer Peter Beard. She left her husband and moved to the United States to begin a modeling career. Her first modeling assignment was for Vogue a year later in 1976. She soon landed some of the most prestigious magazine covers, establishing herself as a supermodel. In 1977 Iman dated American actor Warren Beatty. Later that year, she became engaged to American basketball player Spencer Haywood, and they married soon after. Their daughter, Zulekha Haywood, was born in 1978. The couple divorced nine years later in February 1987. With her long neck, tall stature, slender figure, fine features, and copper-toned skin, Iman was an instant success in the fashion world, though she herself insists that her looks are merely or typically Somali. She became a muse for many prominent designers, including Halston, Gianni Versace, Calvin Klein, Issey Miyake and Donna Karan. She was a favourite of Yves Saint-Laurent, who once described her as his "dream woman". Iman has also worked with many notable photographers, including Helmut Newton, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, and Annie Leibovitz. Iman credits the nurturing she received from various designers with giving her the confidence to succeed in an era when individuality was valued and model-muses were often an integral part of the creative process. Iman first featured in the 1979 British film The Human Factor, and had a bit part in the 1985 Oscar-winning film Out of Africa starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. She then portrayed Nina Beka in the 1987 thriller No Way Out with Kevin Costner, and Hedy in the Michael Caine comedy Surrender the same year. During her first year in Hollywood, in 1991, Iman worked on several film productions. including Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, where she played a shapeshifting alien. Iman also took on some comedic roles. In 1991 she appeared in The Linguini Incident opposite her then-fiancé David Bowie. She had a smaller part in the 1991 comedy House Party 2 and in the 1994 comedy/romance film Exit to Eden. She also played roles in TV. Iman appeared in two episodes of Miami Vice, playing Dakotah in Back in the World (1985) and Lois Blyth in Love at First Sight (1988). She also had a guest role as Mrs. Montgomery on The Cosby Show (1985). In 1988, she appeared as Marie Babineaux in an episode of In the Heat of the Night. On 24 April 1992, Iman married English musician David Bowie in a private ceremony in Lausanne, Switzerland. The wedding was then solemnized in Florence, Italy on 6 June. Their daughter, Alexandria Zahra Jones, was born 15 August 2000 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Iman is also stepmother to Bowie's son from a previous marriage, Duncan Jones. Both children bear Bowie's legal surname. Iman and her family resided primarily in Manhattan and London. After almost two decades of modeling, Iman started her own cosmetics firm in 1994, focusing on difficult-to-find shades for women. Based on her years of experience mixing her own formulations for make-up artists to use on her, she was closely involved with the final product and also acted as the commercial face of the company. Iman Cosmetics was a US$25-million-a-year business by 2010. It is centered on US$14.99 foundations in 4 formulations and 14 shades, and is among the top-selling foundation brands on Walgreens website. In the mid-2000s, Iman spent two years as the host of Bravo TV's fashion-themed show, Project Runway Canada. In November 2010, along with her friend and colleague, designer Isaac Mizrahi, Iman also began hosting the second season of The Fashion Show. Due to her marketability and high profile, Iman was approached in 2007 by the CEO of the Home Shopping Network (HSN) to create a clothing design line. Inspired by her childhood in Egypt and modeling time with Halston, Iman's first collection introduced embroidered, one-size-fits-all caftans. Today, her Global Chic collection is one of four best-selling items among more than 200 fashion and jewelry brands on HSN, having evolved into a line of affordable accessories. In addition to running her global beauty company, Iman is also actively involved in a number of charitable endeavors. Since September 2019, Iman has held the role of CARE's first-ever Global Advocate, where she works alongside CARE to support its mission to create a world where poverty has been overcome and all people live with dignity and security. She is also currently a spokesperson for the Keep a Child Alive program, and works closely with the Children's Defense Fund. She also serves as an Ambassador for Save the Children, and has been active in raising awareness of their relief services in the greater East Africa region. Additionally, Iman works with the Enough Project to end the global trade in conflict minerals. She played a key part in the public campaign against blood diamonds through her termination of her contract with the diamonds conglomerate De Beers over a conflict of ethics. Over the course of her long modeling and philanthropic career, Iman has received many awards. On 7 June 2010, she received a Fashion Icon lifetime achievement award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), a special prize reserved for "an individual whose signature style has had a profound influence on fashion". Iman selected her friend, actress and former model Isabella Rossellini, to present the award. Wearing a gown designed by Giambattista Valli with four giant diamond bracelets on each arm, Iman thanked her parents "for giving me a neck longer than any other girl on any go-see anywhere in the world". Iman's husband David Bowie died on 10 January 2016, and she wrote in tribute to him that "the struggle is real, but so is God."
ProfileIsabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (born 18 June 1952) is an Italian-American actress, author, philanthropist, and former model. The daughter of the Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and the Italian film director Roberto Rossellini, she is noted for her successful tenure as a Lancôme model, and for her roles in films such as Blue Velvet (1986) and Death Becomes Her (1992). Rossellini received a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance in Crime of the Century (1996). BiographyRossellini was born in Rome, the daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman, who was of Swedish and German descent, and Italian director Roberto Rossellini, who was born in Rome from a family originally from Pisa, Tuscany. She has three siblings from her mother: her fraternal twin sister Isotta Rossellini, an adjunct professor of Italian literature. While growing up in Rome, Italy or residing in New York City, Isabella Rossellini has always lived near her; a brother, Robertino Ingmar Rossellini; and a half-sister, Pia Lindström from her mother's first marriage with Petter Lindström. She has four other siblings from her father's two other marriages. Rossellini was raised in Rome, as well as in Santa Marinella and Paris. She underwent an operation for appendicitis at the age of five. At 11, she was diagnosed with scoliosis. In order to correct it, she had to undergo an 18-month ordeal of painful stretchings, body casts and surgery on her spine using pieces of one of her shin bones. Consequently, she has incision scars on her back and shin. At 19, she went to New York City, where she attended Finch College, while working as a translator and a RAI television reporter, one of his interviewees was filmmaker Martin Scorsese, with whom she would marry in 1979. At the age of 28, her modeling career began, when she was photographed by Bruce Weber for British Vogue and by Bill King for American Vogue. During her career, she has also worked with many other renowned photographers, including Richard Avedon, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton, Peter Lindbergh, Norman Parkinson, Eve Arnold, Francesco Scavullo, Annie Leibovitz, Denis Piel, and Robert Mapplethorpe. Her image has appeared on such magazines as Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, and Elle. In March 1988, an exhibition dedicated to photographs of her, called Portrait of a Woman, was held at the Musee d'Art Moderne in Paris. Rossellini's modeling career led her into the world of cosmetics, when she became the exclusive spokesmodel for the French cosmetics brand Lancôme in 1982, replacing Nancy Dutiel in the United States and Carol Alt in Europe. The same year, her marriage to Scorsese ended. In 1983, Rossellini was married to Jon Wiedemann, with whom she has a daughter, Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann (born 1983). The marriage ended three years later in 1986. Rossellini made her film debut with a brief appearance as a nun opposite her mother in the 1976 film A Matter of Time. Her first role was the 1979 film Il Prato, but his most memorable role was as the tortured nightclub singer Dorothy Vallens in the David Lynch film Blue Velvet, in which she also contributed her own singing. She received a 1987 Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her role in Blue Velvet. Other than films, Rossellini also played in a few TV series such as Friends, Alias, and received a Golden Globe and Emmy Award nomination for her performances in two of them. In October 1992, Rossellini modelled for Madonna's controversial book Sex. Rossellini also appeared in Madonna's music video for her successful Top 5 hit song "Erotica", released in autumn 1992. In 1996, when she was 43, she was removed as the face of Lancôme for being "too old". Next year, Rossellini published her self-described fictional memoir, Some of Me (1997). The memoir would be followed by another two books: Looking at Me (2002), and In the name of the Father, the Daughter and the Holy Spirits: Remembering Roberto Rossellini (2006). In 2004 Rossellini became the inaugural brand ambassador for the Italian Silversea Cruises company , and she appeared in print ads and on their website. Barbara Muckermann, the senior vice-president of worldwide marketing and communications in 2004, said at the time of the announcement, "Isabella is the ideal personification of Silversea's exclusive standard of elegance, glamour and sophistication." In 2007, Rossellini Rossellini enrolled at Hunter College in New York to study animal behavior, and the Sundance Channel commissioned her to contribute a short-film project to the environmental program The Green(Later Green Porno) Debuting in 2008, the first series of Green Porno had over 4 million views on YouTube and two further seasons were produced; there are 18 episodes in the series. Rossellini worked with a small budget for Green Porno and she was responsible for the scripts, helped to design the creatures, directed the episodes, and is the primary actor in the series. In each of the episodes, she acts out the mating rituals and reproductive behaviour of various animals while commentary is played. Rossellini said that her research has influenced her perspective on societal notions of beauty: "If you look at nature, there is no perfection. Everything is always evolving and adapting according to whatever the environmental pressure. The more diversity there is, the more things are going to survive." Green Porno was followed by two other animal-themed television productions: Seduce Me: The Spawn of Green Porno and Mammas. As with Green Porno, Rossellini wrote, directed and acted in the series; she is also a producer of the series. Rossellini also brought her Green Porno on stage at The Gateway Performing Arts Center of Suffolk County, in Bellport, New York, the south shore Long Island village where she is a local organic farmer. The show was called "Link Link Circus" (as in Ring Ring), performed by Rossellini, her dog, Peter Pan, and some puppets. In 2016, at the age of 63, Rossellini was rehired by Lancôme's new female CEO, Francoise Lehmann, as a global brand ambassador for the company, which dismissed her as she was too old 20 years ago.
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