At each show, when the man in ponytail comes through the crowd came to congratulate him, Lady Harlech is never far away. Along with Karl Lagerfeld for over 10 years, one that can claim to have a suite reserved at the Ritz six months a year is not defined as a muse (name it considers obsolete), but more as a person able to sort out ideas, making palpable mood of the season through the collections signed Lagerfeld. For its part, the master of the rue Cambon this as his assistant.
Amanda Harlech, "Lady" since she married the English aristocrat Francis Ormsby-Gore, is part of this group of women with a list of qualities, both physical and intellectual, could cover several pages ...
Gracious in the extreme (she diligently practiced classical dance in his youth), it is provided that innate elegance that allows him to wear any clothing with ease and speed. But it is also an erudite person, intelligent, charming and charismatic, showing himself at ease both in a pair of Louboutins that in his riding boots ...
This fascinating, in fact, fifty shares his time between the preparation of numerous collections of Karl Lagerfeld and his English property. She kitchen, rides and darkens many books, sometimes called to be published.
Originally from London, Amanda spends her childhood in a loving home and the high quality of life (his father was a renowned lawyer). In admiring the ball dresses of her mother - a woman with exceptionally beautiful - the little girl falls in love with the magic emanating from the clothing. Like most girls, Amanda is dreaming while dancer. Fearing that the practice of ballet can make him take a bad position (that of "feet apart"), his parents, however, prefer the equity-oriented.
The fairy tale ends for Amanda at its eleventh year, when his parents decide to separate. She left the upscale Regent Street and its illustrious neighbors (Jonathan Miller, George Melly, Alan Bennett, etc ...) or in the process of becoming (Jasper Conran, she became a friend). This does not, however, Amanda of being a child who excels at all: it is particularly good at the piano, painting and drama.
At the end of his school career, she has the choice to integrate the Royal College of Music, Fine Arts or Oxford. She chose Oxford. However, life had a different fate than that of a studious student ... Sophie Hicks, a close friend of Amanda, in fact landed a position as fashion editor at Harpers & Queen and asks her to join him there. Some time later, Hicks flew at Vogue, leaving her place to Miss Harlech ...
Begins for the young woman an exciting time where she meets young promising photographers (such as Mario Testino) and works with designers of the moment. Despite this, Amanda Harlech has trouble adjusting to the sometimes too commercial magazine, and she dreams of broadcast more than poetry, magic and madness through its series mode.
Therefore, when she meets a student of St. Martins School sharing his vision of fashion (John Galliano), she does not hesitate to resign and get into his service. She then helps complete his collection of year-end ... Thus began a collaboration on a background of friendship. If Galliano can not afford to pay for Amanda, it does not care, catering to her husband's family.
This blessed period ends abruptly when she chose to separate from her husband with this decision, it found, in fact obliged to make a living. However, John Galliano is then being signed at Dior, whose leaders do not want to support the salary of his muse ...
Meanwhile, Karl Lagerfeld informed her that she is welcome home. Lady Harlech finds himself before a difficult choice: follow her friend - who she has just spent a very fulfilling 12 years - free of charge or return to the seraglio of Chanel, with the key result stamp. By necessity, the girl band and joined the team of Karl Lagerfeld. Much to the disappointment of John Galliano, who considers his decision as a betrayal ...
First of all suspicious to him, the staff of the rue Cambon eventually adopt it when he realizes it will not take the place of one. It enchants and soon the entourage of Karl, a touch to the British House of Chanel (she does not hesitate to point out that Gabrielle Chanel herself was closely linked to England). Between the Parisian daily life and more rustic on the other side of the Channel, the beautiful also finds time to write a novel, Visions And A Decision that Lagerfeld plans to publish ...
Viewpoint pure mode, Amanda is often seen dressed in monochrome toilet, which does not prevent it from accumulating in his suite at the Ritz sublime creations scratched, which are the best days of his appearances at various fashion weeks. It also keeps on his property a few English vintage dresses she needs to feel the presence, as they are carriers of happy memories or events.
Level dress code, if it sees no need to monitor trends in face value, it considers important knowing how to change its focus a particular piece according to the times, to keep his style without this appearing offline.
Inspired the beginnings of John Galliano, Lagerfeld eminence grise of the clan ... What is the next step in the romantic fate of this "muse" in the modern sense of the word?
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