Marie Seznec Martinez
French sylist and fashion model (1958–2015)
Marie Seznec Martinez (12 April 1958 – 12 November 2015) was a French stylist, former fashion model and ambassador for Christian Lacroix.
Biography
Marie Seznec grew up in Quimper, in southern Brittany, France. Her parents owned a clothing store.
She moved to Paris at age eighteen, where she studied at Studio Berçot fashion school and worked for different designers (mesh collections, accessories, belts, bags). In 1982, she worked as a stylist and model on occasion, when she was noticed by the Marilyn Agency in a publication in the magazine Elle.
Martinez began a modeling career "for fun," according to her. She then modeled for Jean Paul Gaultier, Issey Miyake, Cacharel, Kenzo, Yohji Yamamoto, Adeline André, and Hermès. Her white hair is widely involved in her success as a model.
At Hermès, she met Christian Lacroix who hired her immediately as a model. In 1987, she became the face of Christian Lacroix.
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