Michèle Lamy

Michèle Lamy (born 20 April 1944) is a French cultural and fashion figure and an entrepreneur. She has been a clothing designer, performer, restaurateur, lawyer, and film producer. She is the co-founding partner of Owenscorp and functions as the executive manager of Art/Furniture. Lamy has been photographed by Steven Klein, Mario Sorrenti, her family owns an eyewear company.

As a teen in France, Lamy performed as a stripper at county fairs. Lamy left the profession when she found herself more interested in her defendants than the lawyers practicing in the French legal system. Les Deux hosted people like Madonna, Joni Mitchell, and Sharon Stone. In 2004, the couple established their own fashion company Owenscorp, describing their business partnership as "asking a gypsy to organise a war with a fascist."

Lamy produces the furniture that bears the Owens brand. She also designs jewelry with American jewelry designer Loree Rodkin, whom she met in Los Angeles when she ran an eyewear store and Rodkin was a Hollywood agent. Lamy has appeared in FKA twigs and Black Asteroid music videos. She formed the band Lavascar with the artist Nico Vascellari and her daughter Scarlett Rouge. In 2013, Lamy was featured in Forbes with her daughter, now artist Scarlett Rouge. That year she reopened Café des Artistes in an art complex in Venice.

At the 2015 Venice Biennale, Lamy transformed an old container ship into a floating saloon. There she recorded songs with British electronica band Unkle and good friend A$AP Rocky, while on topside she, editors, and artists dined within various installations, talking.

In 2017, Lamy and Rick Owens were featured in SHOWstudio's editor-at-large and a freelance writer and curator Lou Stoppard's book about fashion's important and iconic duos, Fashion Together: Fashion's Most Extraordinary Duos on the Art of Collaboration. In the book, Owens said that Lamy was more his "mate" than "muse." And, "I don't think anyone would ever think of Michèle as a passive muse. I think that's why she sparks people's interest—because she doesn't fit the typical role of a muse." That year the furniture line she produces for Owens was shown at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. In October 2018, Lamy curated a performance series featuring a tour of "Outsider Art Fair Paris" by British performance artist David Hoyle. In November she was a beauty centerfold for Dazed Digital. From May to November 2019, her boxing installation What Are We Fighting For? was shown in Venice Biennale. During November, Lamy participated in Performa 19 where she presented Before We Die created with Argentinian choreographer, dancer, and artist Cecilia Bengolea.

Lamy said about her approach to fashion and design:

In 2020, Lamy collaborated with director and boxer Katya Bankowsky for Battle Royale, a series of short films shot in Dubai, the Venice Biennale, Overthrow Boxing Gym in New York, and on the boardwalk at Orchard Beach in the Bronx that feature Bankowsky and Lamy preparing for a fight.

Personal life Lamy has one daughter, artist Scarlett Rouge. Lamy is a smoker