Some began calling her the star of the house, a distinction she believed began to bother Lagerfeld. She tells me what she wants to wear and I design it.”ĭe la Fressange walked in Lagerfeld’s very first show for the brand, as well as every one that followed for many years. In Suzy Menkes’ 1986 Vogue story, “Chanel’s Toy Boy,” Lagerfeld spoke of De la Fressange, saying, “I would not do it without Inés de la Fressange. I only worked for Chanel and that’s what I wanted.” I was no longer allowed to model for anyone else. “I signed an insane contract,” the model later recalled. “It had to have a face.He thought it was important for the brand to show that a 25-year-old girl could be dressed in Chanel.” “He thought that Chanel had to be embodied by a woman,” De la Fressange said in a 2020 interview. When Lagerfeld left the conversation with De la Fressange, he made up his mind to make her the face of Chanel. According to William’s Middleton’s biography on Lagerfeld, Paradise Now, De la Fressange was in New York, discussing her options with an agent when she ran into Lagerfeld and told him about her plan to get into an industrial concern. Their relationship took a major step, however, in 1983, when De la Fressange was 25 and considering a career change, and Lagerfeld was just getting started at Chanel.
Inés de la Fressange, an aristocratic French model, originally met Lagerfeld during his days at Chloé, when she was working for the brand. Who knows? Maybe we will see a few of them honor the designer at the Met Gala on Monday night. From his first exclusive Chanel model, Inès de la Fressange, to the cat he dotted on like a daughter, we’re looking back at the history of Lagerfeld’s muses. Not all of these relationships were built to last-Lagerfeld was an infamously petty character and often threw away companions like old dish towels-but that doesn’t diminish the effect they had on the designer. During his time in the fashion industry, from his first job working under Pierre Balmain to his last days at Chanel, Lagerfeld got close with models, editors, and other designers, allowing them to influence his creations. The social creature that Lagerfeld was, it is also important to consider the company he kept.
We can attempt to do so through the clothes he created, the photos he took, the quotes for which he became known (many of which are controversial), but that somehow still leaves an incomplete picture.
Lagerfeld was a complicated man, one who cannot be easily defined. Ahead of this year’s Met Gala, the fashion industry is looking back at Karl Lagerfeld and his unparalleled impact on fashion history.
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