Introducing Zahia: A Modern Cortesan & Lingerie Designer

Karl Lagerfeld's Protege & Muse

“I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.” -Karl Lagerfeld

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"Who is France’s hottest new couture lingerie designer? None other than Zahia Dehar, Karl Lagerfeld’s 20-year-old muse and protege who used to be an underage escort in Paris.

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Dehar is perhaps best known for one particular client, Franck Ribery. He’s the popular international footballer from a poor background -- scarred by a car accident -- who married his childhood girlfriend, was a devoted dad and an devout, admired convert to Islam.

When news broke that he allegedly had flown a then-17 Dehar to Germany for a liaison, it sparked one of biggest sex scandals to hit the French sports world.

But the Algerian-born Dehar, now known – like Madonna – only by her first name, was rescued by Lagerfeld, befriended by Jean Paul Gaultier and fashion photographer Ellen Von Unwerth, and was reborn as a luxury lingerie designer.

Dehar now has her own website (of course) and Twitter page.

Lagerfeld calls her a flashback to France's 18th-century courtesans, beautiful well-paid mistresses of the rich and powerful, in "a purely French tradition that the whole world admired and copied."
Her first big lingerie show was in January 2012...."

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