Bewitching People: Michele Lamy & Scarlett Rouge

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Michele Lamy and Rick Owens are great 

influences on my work. Both eccentric creative conceptuals and designers who represent living life with the lid off, keeping striving for change and improvement. Their eccentricity and excellence in the quality of their work and how they collaborate with a variety of artists, make them favourites amongst the fashion, arts and music industries alike

 Michele has lead a virtuosic life of exploration  "that has included successful careers as a defense attorney, clothing designer, performer, film producer, and restaurateur. Over the last ten years, Lamy's life has also included her work as creative collaborator with her husband, fashion rock star Rick Owens."

"She's Algerian, a gypsy; she was born in a resistance camp in occupied France, was raised by wolves in the Ardennes; she's an arms dealer, a vampire, a witch, and she's 1600 years old (the number is consistent, as if it were exact, vetted by a team of experts).  The truth is she's Parisian and used to perform in a cabaret. She met Owens through his then-boyfriend and hired him as a patternmaker for her own line, Lamy."

Her gypsy and witchy like personality are things I observed whilst producing my piece"Spellbound"  the dark and gothic style with fresh tailoring and Arabian bling twists, that her and her husband champion are elements I looked at whilst deciding on timbre and velocity in my work.  Like their famous layering of gauzy fabrics with very different textures including leathers, I wanted to emulate this by layering dark and sensual sounds  upon the  the ghostly melody that ran echoing through the whole piece.

"Anyone who found their way through the unmarked door in a Hollywood parking lot that led to  Les Deux Cafés between 1996 and 2003 felt Lamy's invisible hand directing events. It was in the ‘30s clapboard Craftsman house she moved to the site, and in the eucalyptus trees she planted herself to gird the Provençal-style brick garden. You could feel it as she strolled the patio in Owens' early designs (droopy, gothic pieces reminiscent of Lamy wear), or when she sang, "I thought it was Tangier I wanted" in her Benson & Hedges-marbled voice in Les Deux's jazzy back bar. You knew it was there when you crossed that threshold to find, say, Madonna accidentally doused in hot candle wax at her own birthday party."

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