He is one of the most mysterious designers of modernity, the Creator of the "Gloomy Glamor". She is a riddle woman, a sorceress with tattooed fingers and a successful businessworm. Together they are the soul and the mind of the Rick Owens brand, producing conceptual clothes, accessories and furniture, and it is more than love.
Designer Rick Owens grew up in a small California town of Portverille. His childhood years did not foresee the career of the "Prince Darkness" of the fashion industry - a conservative Catholic family fenced its child from temptations and shocks. However, having broken down to freedom, Rick (at that time, just simply Jen Shaker) sought to get away from any control and any prohibitions.
It is still adhered to this idea - but not in his personal life, but in creativity. "I want my work alternative to, and not the only option," he says. Images of its collections - cut in oblique, asymmetry, multi-layered, damaged fabrics, agkeredness are generated by those chaos, which is happening in the soul of a person who does not know how to dispose of his freedom.
He creates ugly bags from expensive fur, tears on the shreds Noble cashmere, elegant things artificially gives an aged, well-thought.
He calls his "Glange" style - a mixture of glamor and grunge. It is free from trends and dictates of large companies. Its main rule is "violate the rules".
Taking care of his own path, he began to learn paintings in Los Angeles, but in a couple of years he became interested in fashion and began training cut and sew. For six years, he worked with a simple cutter. That time was filled with uncertainty, alcohol and drugs. The boyfriend Rica agreed to help him in search of a new work - and introduced him to Michel Lami.
Long-haired young man with expressive traits, dressed in black with legs to the head, attracted her attention. And he was struck by this miniature woman, fragile, like the mummy of the Egyptian queen, and strong, like an ancient magician.
Both felt the same thing: "We are with you one blood."
She saved him from self-destruction, and he became for her the most successful project. She sold her business and put money into a risky enterprise - a brand Rick Owens.In the conditions when large concerns absorb niche brands and dictate their inhuman requirements (for example, to produce up to 30 collections per year), Michelle and Rick's business remains on the floating saves free , Independent Spirit.
Biography Michel Lami Washkan from myths and semi-lies. Rumors that she is the Algerian witch of three thousand years old from the genus, brought up by wolves, look much plausible than the story of a long-forgotten career career. Michelle's lawyer left, without making a series of cases of sexual crimes, and then managed to be a singer, a perfortmeter, a restaurant ...
It is known for certain that her great-grandfather worked with a great couture field Poire-created decorations based on the art of ancient civilizations. These rings and bracelets are now wearing Michelle itself (and the wedding is not wearing, "there is no place for him").
She is not just a style icon. She destroys all ideas about the beautiful and creates its own aesthetics - so powerful that Rick at some point began to fear, which will dissolve in its mystical world, losing its own nerve and structure. "Like Gypsy and the fascist fight under one flag," he says about tense and stormy creative cooperation with his wife. The two lines of the Rick Owens brand are controlled by it and are created without Rick's intervention.
Every morning, Michel draws a vertical strip on his forehead - "To get together with thoughts." Her hands are covered by Berber Tattoos - Tribute to Algerian origin. She is ink fingers - because she likes black nails, but do not like to feel the lacquer on the nails. Her smile causes a superstitious horror - in the world where the chase of the white teeth became almost anecdotal, Michel's mouth full of gold and diamonds. She explains it very simple: "I smoke a lot, my teeth will never be white, let them be gold - because I love gold."
And ... she is not true Rick Owens. True, not as a husband, but as a designer, supporting, for example, another "gloomy genius" - Gareth Pugh.
Rick Owens, unlike his spouse, is completely indifferent to clothes. For years wears the same set of things - black sports pants, baggy shorts over, white cotton shirt and black cashmere T-shirt.
However, it can hardly be distinguished from models demonstrating his collections - also because Owens is not tied to a disembodied model standard.
Its shows are a real show where people are involved in various buildings, various races and types of appearance. For example, one day he replaced the models of a group of dancers - powerful, muscular, aggressive.
It turned out that the avant-garde clothing of strange forms does not interfere with the actively move, and the shoes created by Rick, together with the cult brand of Adidas - is immaculately convenient.
Gold mask on the face of the model - protest against the use of female nudity.
Now the Eternal Buntar is aware that anarchy cannot be comprehensive: "If there is control, everything will certainly work."
Now in a number of Owens fans - Madonna, Corti Love, Adam Lambert, Bill Kaulitz, Helena Bonem Carter. Clothes it. The brands were used in the film "The Devil wears Prada".
His works always cause a wave of criticism, but the designer is indifferent to it. "A person is afraid of those things that are beyond his control, but at the same time accompany him all his life: sex, death, love is the sacraments that create magic of life and serve as the very deep motives of the actions. I want to believe that what I am doing is, it's important, "he says.
Michelle Lami, spouse and business partner of designer Rick Owens, at the Paris Fashion Week SS18, September 30, 2017
Tattoos on the phalanges of the fingers, gold teeth and frighteningly massive bracelets are three mandatory components of its image. However, what else can you expect from the spouse of "terrible and terrible" Rick Owens? But Michelle Lahi, a native of France and the daughter of the people from Algeria, not at all of those ladies who are satisfied with the glory of her husband, speaking by silent muses of the master. In many ways, thanks to Michel, Owens achieved global success, and it was she who, Rica's business partner, is the culprit of that delight, which causes each Rick Owens show over the past ten years. What is known about this dark lady, reminiscent of the sorceress of the Malefisent with the pests of Vivien Westwood?
Mystery of birth
Michel knows perfectly, as a lack of information can ignore public interest, and therefore does not affect the date of his birth, although it is known that it appeared in the French Department of Jura. One day, a woman was mentioned that he was born in the year of the monkey, so fashionable observers have already expressed their assumptions about the year of her birth - 1944. However, there are even more interesting versions. Some say that Lami is Algerian Roma and she more than 1500 years old, others - that she was born in the resistance camp in the occupied France, the third - that her wolves were raised in Ardennes. The fourth and most confident that the lady is actually a vampire or (at least) just a weapon trader. However, all these legends Michel not only disproves, but also supports - its eccentric way.
Life to Owens
In the 60s and in the early 70s, Michel worked as a lawyer of protection (unexpectedly) and enthusiastically studied the works of the philosopher-postruplist of the Gilles of Delias, but very soon Eccentric took top of the prison. Around the mid-70s, the girl pulled into the show business, so from a respected lawyer Lami retrained into a cabaret dancer. Michel toured throughout France, and in 1979 she went to the United States. At first she lived in New York, and then moved to Los Angeles, where she launched his own fashion line and opened two restaurants - Café des Artistes and Les Deux Cafés, after a while they became cult. In the 90s in the restaurants, Lami could see such star lady like Madonna and Sharon Stone. Michel also often appeared on stage, performing songs to the verses of Langston Hughes, Pioneer of "Jazz Poetry" and the Star of the Cultural Movement "Harlem Renaissance". By the way, Michel sings still - in the Lavascar group, together with his daughter-artist Scarlett Rouge, born in marriage with the artist Richard Newton.
Acquaintance with Rikom.
Witch and Gota Union
Many consider them an ideal partner for Owens, this long-haired erudite with a harsh face, good eyes and a great sense of humor. Rick calls Michelle militant "gun", but in an interview more than once he said that people always stretch to his spouse, and in this she reminds him of a hen-azew that creates a special atmosphere for people in which they can grow. True, the lady itself does not agree with such. "When someone seems unique to me, I want to know him, exchange views, drink, talk ... often I don't know what we will work together, but I know that I need to communicate, and there already see. I do not think it looks like something maternal, "Michel argued in one of the interviews.
Many people call the muse, but the lady and this is questioned. "I don't like the word muse. If it would be so easy to describe a person as "Muse", I would not have problems. But I, rather, the coordinator. We are always discussing with Rick what we do. I am very constructive and perfectly imagine the creation of history: it is not about MUZ. The entrepreneur is who I'm. "
Under the wing Michel
Not only Owens was lucky with Michel. In 2006, she spoke as a patronage of the British designer Gareth Pugh, and after some time helped the designer from the UAE Ahmed Abdelrahman, who is now leading Thamanyah brand. By the way, the youth from Lasi is also delighted: Michelle managed to rise with the singer FKA TWIGS over her mini film M3LL155X.
Boxing and Jewelry
Michelle by nature fighter and does not hide it. At the end of last year, the lady began to cooperate with the British retailer Selfridges, opening a special Corner Shop, in the interior of which Lami tried to unite the two main passions: boxing and art. The design of boxing pears worked Gareth Pugh and Craig Green, and the pictures of the daughter Michel Scarlett Rouge were conquered on the walls. Especially for Lami Versace and Off-White in collaboration with Everlast, designer gloves and other boxing accessories have been created.
"Boxing is a state of mind. You only think about what you are doing at the moment. Fascinating, as if playing chess. Boxing is a wonderful metaphor of our life. "
Among the hobbies of the lady - music, furniture design (under the Rick Owens brand), and obsession # 1 - jewelry. Michel is one of the few women, firmly confident that the decorations do not happen much. A few years ago, together with her husband, she introduced the HUNROD line (Hun - "Gunn," so Owens calls his spouse). Michelle from youth collects bracelets, but it admits that her collection is not so great, because they are often either lost, or she gives decoration to their friends. But at the same time, Lami believes that jewelry is part of the life of a woman: "Jewelry decorations must tell everything about you - who are you, what are your personality. Your story may change, but the decorations should keep everything in yourself. "
By the way, about stories. "I like to invent my life, like stories from" 1001 Nights, "- says Lami. - So you create yourself. Sometimes you go on compromises when you live with an interesting person. But you can not without your dreams. I think somewhere deep inside, I am sure that I will be killed if I stop telling stories as if in the "1001 nights." And I do not need any explanations. Every morning I get up with the thought: "Oh, you can do it, you can do something ...". I am glad to this world. "
I'm a little sorry that I completely ceased to chase the fashion. Or maybe a shaking of ancient and even at least a picture?
I even envy them a little: sometimes you want to mention and stick somewhere ultramarine ostrich feather! Or hurry by a semi-door necklace of the nam-yum tribe. Or pull striped tights. But courage is missing. And they are enough!
I love fashionable freaks and just mods. After all, fashion is a kind of theater right among the streets, and eccentric fashionists are the actors who themselves gave leading parties. And even it is a pity that now they are so rarely found.
Talk about some little?
Elsa Skiaparelli
She began with the fact that he invented a strange knitted dress. Then - aspirin tablets necklace. Then he invented hundreds of insane caps. Over time, she became the most famous Couturier, whose glory thundered in Europe and in America. Elsa - mother of fashionable eccentricity. Unscracing and not particularly bright from nature, she created her unusual style, a little bit causing, but elegant and concise. She was the first one who came up with and made the popular "strange" fashion. She was buried "strange" - in a bright pink suit. And she lived a lot - 83 years old. By the way, I noticed that many fashion figures live for quite a long time, like ballet artists:
Coco Chanel - 87 years
Nina Ricci - 87 years
Yumber Zhivanche - 87 (alive)
Pierre Cardin - 92 (Along yet, smoking)
Valentino - 82 (alive)
Sonya Ricel -84 year (alive)
Emanuel Ungaro - 81 (alive)
Paco Raban - 80 (alive)
Karl Lagerfeld - 81 (alive)
Madeleine VIONE - 99.
Giorgio Armani - 80 (alive)
Oscar de la Renta - 82 (God, I did not know that he died 3 Money back! And I liked his work so much!)
Ottavio Missoni - 92
Yves-Saint Laurent somehow drove up - 71 total.
Iris Afel
American fashion journalist, collector, antique fabric restorer, clothing designer and especially jewelry.
I love her! I want to be such an old woman in 50 years! 60 years in a happy marriage, and it seems to me that it is noticeable. Iris is now 93 years old, but it is still bright and wonderful, although it seems, has never been a classic beauty.
Vivien Westud
British designer, Grandma Fashion Punk.
When I saw this photo on the network, it was terribly upset - I thought that Vivien had health problems, so she lost his fire-red hair. It turned out, I worked in vain - Mrs. Westwood saw her head to draw attention to environmental problems, in particular, climate warming. Well, it just got hot! The fashion designer admitted that it was going to grow hair again, but they will not be painted, and he will remain gray. Well, let yourself live for a long time! After all, it is still quite young - she is only 73!
By the way, in the photo she and her husband, Austrian designer Andreas CronTer. He is her former grandson student.
Loggers, grandmother !!!
Daphne Guinness
The face of Daphne is always focused - and how else would you order to walk on such heel?!
Yes Yes! This is the most real Guinness, the "beer princess". Inheruring such an empire, you can afford everything you like! For example, dress as an aliens. And also produce your clothing line, collect her own (clothes), to shoot a movie (the film sprinkled by it "Return" was nominated for Oscar), sometimes it is to act in it, to be filmed as a model in various fashion magazines, etc. And Daphne bought the entire wardrobe Isabella Bloa at the auction after her death (about her below).
Lynn Yager
I always believed that if you want to look good and stylish, you need to follow weight. And the fashion journalist Lynn Jager spit on it wanted. But it does not confuse it with anyone! By the way, I like these grunge bags and rags. Lynn is very organic in them, although absolutely insane. Only to the sponges, everything is not used to her.
Henri Leon Telly
The problems of excess weight and Henri-Leon Telly are not particularly worried. After all, it is without exaggeration the largest (in the literal and figurative sense) the figure of the Fashion Industry. If Henri is not present on a fashionable show, it means that it is not a very fashionable show. American Vogue chef, the right hand of the legendary editor of Anna Wints, a fashionable critic and consultant, he himself boldly breaks all fashionable taboos, he can all: wear everything in one color, decorate himself with gigantic logos, look like a leather blue sofa. He is forbidden only one thing: be invisible!
Catherine Baba
This woman also does not confuse with anyone, because it is Catherine Baba.
She is from Australia, but has long been living in Paris. And where else is she, such, live?! Stylist, fashionable consultant and just fashionable. She is a real collector-collector vintage, literally obsessed with fashion 20-30s of the last century. Move around the city prefers a bike. On hairpins!
Shail Fadkhia
It was undoubtedly one of the brightest characters of the fashion party of New York. A native of Nepal, Shail for a long time was an official in the UN, and after retirement, she took up the design of such bright outfits. He had them an indispensable set. In one of these multicolored suits, it was buried - he died in 2013 aged 78 years.
Diana Vryland
One of the most influential figures of the fashion world, editor, consultant, critic. As for me, a real style icon. Her outfits were always on the verge, but never passed her - she always stayed at the feature that separates eccentricity from Grotesque. In his outfits, she did an emphasis on stylish accessories, Kra him was rarely fright. Another long-life - lived 85 years.
Michelle Lami.
That's a Fric, my taste. And someone likes! For example, a young husband, designer Rick Owensu (with her photo). He is younger for 25 years, but it seems to be crazy about her crumbling zlazkin (Michelle growth - 153 cm). The girl does not advertise his age, but they say that 60 is at least. Well, without a difference, because it clearly feels very young and reckless!
Isabella Bloou
Hats one other incredible!
Isabella Bloou - the embodiment of eccentricity. The famous fashion journalist, who worked in different magazines, herself never afraid to look funny and grotesque. It was crazy about ridiculous hats, we were glad to wear them. It was a funny and at the same time a tragic character. In childhood I experienced psychotrauma - brother drowned in her eyes in her eyes. Isabella for many years suffered from depression, childlessness aggravated it. I tried to end several times, the last attempt was successful. Did not live to 50.
I look at her and I understand that against the background of Isabella Lady Gaga - just a pitiful shutdown!
Patrick McDonald.
"Man in a hat." In her, he seemed to be born. Dandy and New York Columnist. Looks like Sheldon Cooper, but finally chuck.
Michelle Harper
About the New York Fashion Consultant Michel Harper is rarely spoken in the singular, usually always mention Her girlfriend Jenny Shimitsa. Perhaps under the influence of his Japanese beloved Michel and created his slightly oriental style. True, both professional stylists helped her in this.
John Galiano
Sometime was my favorite couture. I do not mean to displacing, but in the sense of seeing (there is no money to "displacing", and it is hardly necessary to wear where to wear it). Elegant was the "Eastern Express" collection! Now, probably, too, not bad, but only I have not followed these things for a long time. He himself also always loved "entitled", only with his own specific appearance and height, 160 always brightened to a sad Jewish woman, whatever he had shuffled.
Anna Delul Russo
Italian, Creative Director of Japanese Vogue. Anna under the clothes allocated a separate apartment in which only 4000 pairs shoes. Its outfits are sometimes sophisticated and elegant, and sometimes - bold and sacrificing, as in the photo.
Katie Grand
Fashion editor, creator of the magazine "LOVE MAGAZINE". And a very strange character: inaccurately laid hair, lack of makeup, the legs are very so-so, the look - and at the same time dyed "couture" shoes. Look, the fur coat on the left is the same as Anna Delled Rousseau.
Georgina Dolell
And this is just a British girl, a big one. But very fashionable! She leads a blog. I love to consider her "bows"!
Diana Perne
Fashion journalist, blogger and director. In the past - photographer and designer of funeral processions. Judging by the choice of style - the woman is practical and economical, because her things do not need to fly often. And if seriously, it seems, she is cool and not very stupid aunt, judging by her interview. There she is honest and confessed - black less often needs to be in a dry cleaning. But the interior in her house, she says all multicolored.
Zanra Roads.
Full antipode of the previous heroine. I think the owner and the creator of all these outfits has a colossal self-irony. I hope. Is it not serious?
You can, as you like to treat this acidic colorful madness, but in my homeland, in the UK, Zanra is a very popular fashion designer. She has a line for the production of these cheerful tissues and their knitting shop. And in general, she truncated "Qwine" and Princess Diana. I myself would not refuse some of her sweater from her sweater, otherwise it was so tired of tweed prignificant!
Anna Pijazhi
And finally, that, who had to start. Anna Piaji!
Home City Crazy Extravagant Style Icon!
How I lagged behind the fashionable life! Just preparing this post, I learned that Anna has no 2 years! She died in 2012 for 82 years of life. Fashion critic, journalist, consultant, a party and a mandatory viewer on all meaningful shows, it never appeared in public in the same outfit. And the outfits, outfits! One of the other brighter and insane! You can laugh as much as you like, but just sew for Anna considered the best couture of the world - Karl Lagerfeld, for example, he adored! Manolo Blanik himself did shoes for her, and Hats - Stephen Jones.
Well, everything, I have friki original people ended. Yes, yes, I know, the main thing is not clothes, but the fact that a person in the shower. I know, they are not slightly at home. And yes, all this shifted and the fads of rich madmen. But at the same time it seems to me that without them the world would be much more boring!
PS. We do not write about our CIS - carefully review these, which is higher, and immediately becomes clear who under whom "kosit", and how bad it turns out.
Michelle Lami - a mysterious erudite, whose charm attracts many fans and famous friends; A unique personality, the closest environment of which varies from a $ AP Rocky to Gareth Pugh. Evgeny Rabkin is trying to deeper to penetrate Michel Lai consciousness and find out what she lives.
People who do not know Michel Las are usually called her "sorcerer". Yes, of course, in its appearance there is something witchcraft: hands covered with henna, fingers decorated with rings, shrill brilliant eyes on the background of the outlines of her tanned face. But even more ookolds her mysterious personality. If the majority of people walk, they like lines as if sliding over the surface. She has a hoarse voice and strong French accent, despite the fact that from 1979 to 2003 she lived in Los Angeles.
It is difficult to take an interview: the course of her thoughts often escapes and goes into the narrative mode. Or she is expressing highly allegations: "Rapers are modern poets." Or, when, in her opinion, you ask something incredibly obvious, Michelle Lami looks at you as if you fell away from the moon. In response to the question, whether she follows the politics, it meets exhaustive: "And who does not follow something?" As if saying: "How can I do this?" At the same time, Lami is amazingly friendly and open. Young people are suitable for her reverent reverence, after a moment already concluded in the arms. And she has a great sense of humor.
If you have ever been able to meet Lami, enchanting her and not completely understand how to treat it, do not worry - this is a normal reaction. You probably know that Michelle Lami is the wife of Designer Rick Owens, although the "wife" seems a strange term to describe their symbious relationships. Lami itself is an absolute talent. Under the name Owens, it produces various furniture, ranging from black matte couches from plywood and brutal marble chairs and ending with steel frame benches with pillows covered with textured camel wool. She is still engaged in design decorations with Lori Rodkin and writes music with his Lavascar group. She also participated in the music clips FKA TWIGS and Black Asteroid.
Lami was born in a family that has long been working in the fashion industry. Her grandfather was engaged in creating accessories for one of the most famous couturiers of France, Poire fields. Lami studied the right and after law school five years was engaged in jurisprudence, until he moved to Los Angeles. There she launched his own clothing line and accessories, while having a store and a small plant. One day she hired a young man named Rick Owens to the post of a lecturer. Lami quickly realized that the real talent was hit her. Its purpose was to launch his own line, therefore the enterprise of lasies on the manufacture of clothes gradually turned into a business Owens.
At the same time, Lami managed Les Deux Cafes - a restaurant covered with ivy, in which the Hollywood elite often had. The evenings sang for them with their voice with hoarse. In the mid-90s Owens gradually began selling clothes under his name. Naturally, Lami was the first woman he began to wear. Les Deux Cafes regulars noticed this, often marking her outfits, and the name of Rick Owens began to gain popularity. He began to wear celebrities such as Courtney Love, and entered into an exclusive contract with Maxfield, the best designer store in Los Angeles. In 2002, with the support of the chief editorVogue.Anna Wintures he spent his first fashion show. Shortly thereafter, he found an Italian investor and received an invitation to develop clothes for the Revillon french fur house, married Lai, and they moved to Paris. Everything else, as they say, you yourself know.
For two years, Lami came the initiator of the art project called Bargenale, within the framework of which a real barge during the Venetian Biennale turned into installation, combining music, food and art. She learned without much effort to attract interesting people in his life - such as the rapper and the Ghetto Gastro team - they took part in Bargenale (Ghetto Gastro sat barbecue for visitors).
Due to its interdisciplinary and intercultural attractiveness, Lami is the ideal example of a modern cultural erudite - not quite a "artist" in the traditional understanding of the word, but creatively an omnivorous thinker. It cannot be attributed to any one category, so all the works of Lami are going to the fact that she calls "Lamyland" - her personal creative universe.
If you were born in one place, for a long time they lived in another and do not fit into the conventions of society, then you have the full right to create your own world. You decide to determine yourself not by their nationality, race or religion, but on the set of cultural and aesthetic values. And here the game comes into play in its various forms - whether music, poetry or fashion. You find like-minded people regardless of the color of the skin, sexual orientation or place of birth. You create your own "tribe". And so Lamyland is born.
I meet with lamen in Paris before showing the male collection in June. It costs a hot and surprising sunny day, ideal for the show, which should pass in the courtyard of the Paris Palace Tokyo. Michel Lami dressed in a sculptural dress Rick Owens and shoes with an elongated nose. She has a Gopro camera on her head.
"I write down how my day goes, for Visionaire," - tells me Lami. - "You will become famous."
We walk along the backstage zone accompanied by Janet, which is engaged in PR Lami, and Giovanni is her right hand in the field of furniture creation. The energy level of Lami can only be envied. It seems that she does not stop for a second, checking how things are going on the team of makeup artists, looking at the models, leaving what the podium looks like, and making Owens's comments, who with love calls her "dear." At some point, Scarlett Rouge appears - the daughter of Lami from the previous marriage - and lamen invites us to walk along the podium while it writes all this to Gopro. The rehearsal of the show begins, and Lami points to the first model, saying: "This is a rapper Tommy Cash. He's great".
For Lami at each Rick Owens showing a separate sector, where she sits with her "tribe". She asks to rearrange some places, forcing the advertising agent to recover. Voice of the show must appear from minute to minute. "But these places are booked for AmericanVogue.! " - the agent speak indignantly. "I don't care," Lami categorically.
After a small battery, everything comes down to a simple misunderstanding, and the advertising agent, which a minute looked as if he swallowed the apple entirely, finally empties a sigh of relief.
"I do not care"
Guests of the show arrive. They greet and begin to be photographed. A $ AP Rocky appears, dressed in a denim suit with a print advertising his new album."Testing". A little reminds hidden marketing - he advertises his pop-up stor on the Paris Fashion Week, which sells the same product. He has massive sneakers. Their kind refers to Osiris D3, similar to the bulky skate silhouette, whose popularity fell on the line of centuries. Lami and Rocky hugging and talking for a few minutes. Also, one of the co-founders of Ghetto Gastro, John Gray, dressed in the black image of Rick Owens: shorts with underestimated seam, T-shirt and DRKSHDW sneakers resembling Converse Chuck Taylors on a strict steroid diet. In about half an hour, everyone sit down, and the show begins.
What do not do not expect from Las, so this is what she is an experienced boxer. She is an avid practitioner since Los Angeles. True, Lami prefers contactless box, because she hates violence. Such a contradiction is completely typical of nature, although there is no contradiction for her in this. What she likes in boxing, so this is a sharp presence in the present moment, the exacerbation of all feelings, the world that takes the form of immediateness, the feeling of "here-and-now."
"It looks like dances," says Michelle Lami. - "And there, and there is a playground and music." Lami is trained in different parts of the world. One of her favorite places is the Gym "Overthrow" at Bliker Street in New York. Once she pulled me - not an amateur boxing - there on a photo session. Among the motley team of the heroes of the gym there was a leisher Walker from Ghetto Gastro. I left after the photographer began to call for all the guys to remove T-shirts. Walker stayed.
"It looks like dancing," she says. - "And there, and there is a playground and music"
At the beginning of the year, Lami was able to demonstrate his love for boxing in an unusual form. The "Selfridges" department store offered it to organize a temporary space reflecting her universe: "Lamyland". As a topic for Lamyland Lami chose boxing, installing a boxing ring inside the store and obtaining exclusive boxing products from various brands, starting from and ending. The idea "Selfridges" was to make the thematic pop-up stor, but as a result, Lami recreated a fully functioning boxing room with boxing classes that could be visited there. "Why are you fighting?" - asked slogan installation. When I ask Lami about what she was fighting, she answers without the slightest notch of porch: "For ensuring the world - nothing special."
Brands participating in the collaboration of Lamyland ranged from Everlast before. Restraint and glamor connected in a strange combination, not amenable to classification. And this is exactly what loves Lami so much. "It seems to me that all these categories of classifications are incorrect and obsolete," says Michel Lai, referring to traditional hierarchies that separate, for example, art from food, or opera from hip-hop.
The situation around us emphasizes her thought. After the show Rick Owens we sit in the lush garden of a fashionable Japanese restaurant in the chic hotel of the richest district of Paris. Imagine four ready, surrounded by a bunch of costumes and bags, and you will understand what I mean. It seems strange to me, but feels like at home. "I like this restaurant because you love to dinner gangsters," says Michelle Lami. Then, turning attention to the atypical number of old-fashioned costumes around us, it adds, "maybe not today."
You can rarely meet people who created their own universe, but Owens and Lami did it. They have a unique style - a mixture of coarse brutality and elegance, nomadism and gothic, the type of creative destruction, which is the subject of envy in the fashion industry and beyond. They complement each other, despite the fact that they often have to conduct separate life due to inconsistent graphs. Just three days after the show of the men's collection, Lami had already set off in London to record the new Lavascar album. Michel Lami will return to France to trace the large supply of furniture for a private client and meet with a representative of the Art Fair to discuss the recreation of "Lamyland" in a new form other than Pop-Up Stora "Selfridges". What next? Who knows. True, one thing can still be said for sure: it will be done in the unique style of Michelle Lami.
