Michèle Lamy  Michèle Lamy (born 20 April 1944) is a French culture and fashion figure of Algerian origin. She has been a clothing designer, performer, film producer, and restaurateur, and is the wife, muse and creative accomplice of fashion designer Rick Owens. Michèle Lamy was born in 1944 in Jura, France, into an Algerian family with a background in the fashion industry. Her grandfather made accessories for one of France's most famous couturiers, Paul Poiret. During the 60s and 70s, Lamy worked as a defence lawyer, while studying with the postmodern philosopher Gilles Deleuze. She was involved in the May 1968 protests in Paris. She then worked as a cabaret dancer and toured France before moving to the United States in 1979. In 1979, Lamy moved to New York and then settled in Los Angeles, where she set up a fashion line and ran two cult restaurants/nightclubs – Café des Artistes and Les Deux Cafés in 1996 with her first husband, experimental filmmaker Richard Newton. With her tattooed fingers and gold-plated teeth, she was an emblematic figure of nightlife in Los Angeles in the middle of 90s. Her tattoos were inspired by the Berbers, during her first trip to North Africa when she was around 17 or 18 years old. In 1990, Lamy created a clothing line called "Lamy". She hired Rick Owens, who later became her business partner and, then, her companion and husband. In 2003, Lamy and Owens left Los Angeles to settle in Paris and got married in 2006. 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.” A muse and collaborator, Lamy shares responsibility for the expansion of Owens brand, as well as that of their protégé; Gareth Pugh. Lamy also produces the furniture that bears the Owens name. She also designs jewelry with Loree Rodkin and 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 November 2010, Lamy posed for a shoot for "Vogue Paris" with the photographer Steven Klein. In 2013, Lamy was featured in "Forbes" with her daughter from her first marriage, artist Scarlett Rouge. In 2015, she was featured in one of the videos for the EP "M3LL155X" by FKA Twigs.