30/06/2025
Michèle Lamy is a compelling French cultural icon—designer, performer, entrepreneur, and muse—who has shaped the worlds of fashion, art, and nightlife.
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🧭 Quick Bio
• Born: February 5, 1944 in Jura, France. Studied law and worked as a defense lawyer while immersed in postmodern philosophy under Gilles Deleuze .
• 1979: Moved to New York, then Los Angeles, launching her fashion line Lamy (1984) and founding iconic nightlife venues like Café des Artistes and Les Deux Cafés .
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🔥 Style & Aesthetic
• Tattooed fingers, gold-plated teeth, dark-lined eyes, and a signature black line on her forehead—many inspired by North African/Amazigh traditions .
• Embraces aging and imperfection: “Beauty is a way of being yourself and belonging within your own story in the world.” 
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💼 Career & Projects
• Owenscorp (2004): Co-founded with Rick Owens, whom she married in 2006. Their partnership is described as “asking a gypsy to organise a war with a fascist” .
• Designs avant-garde furniture, collaborates on jewelry (Loree Rodkin), appears in music videos (FKA twigs, Black Asteroid) .
• Fronts the band LAVASCAR with Nico Vascellari and her daughter Scarlett Rouge; released albums drawing from Langston Hughes poetry .
• Transformed a container ship into a floating saloon for the 2016 Venice Biennale; has worked closely with A$AP Rocky on album art and creativity .
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🥊 “Lamyland” & Boxing
• Has boxed for over 35 years. In 2018, she opened “Lamyland,” a boxing gym inside Selfridges, London—formerly A$AP Rocky’s AWGE Bodega .
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🎨 Creative Philosophy
• Believes in collaboration: “I like to really be with a lot of people and exchange ideas…and do something together, so I’m easily seduced…” .
• Draws heavily on poetic expression—especially from Langston Hughes—to shape her creative output ().
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💬 Why Michèle Lamy Matters
She defies easy categorization—part philosopher, part punk, part performance artist. A living embodiment of counterculture, she merges law, activism, music, fashion, art, and sport into a singular creative vision. Rick Owens even admits she’s more his “mate” than muse—she’s the active spark in their empire .
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Curious about her furniture line, boxing gym, or work with musicians? Let me know—I’d love to dive deeper!