Inès de la Fressange

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Inès Marie Laetitia Eglantine Isabelle de Seignard de la Fressange (born 11 August 1957), is a French designer of fashion and perfumes.

She was born in Gassin (Var), France. Her French father (a marquis) was a stockbroker, and her mother was an Argentinian model. She grew up in an 18th century mill outside Paris with three brothers. Her grandmother was Madame Simone Jacquinot, heiress to the Lazard banking fortune. In the 1980s, she modeled for photographer Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel, becoming his muse, but in 1989, they had an argument and parted company. Ines does not now model very often. She is now a businesswomen with a chain of clothing boutiques, a designer and a consultant for Jean-Paul Gaultier.

In 1989, she became one of the series of models whose image represented Marianne, the French national emblem of reason and liberty.

In 1990, she married Luigi d'Urso, an Italian railroad executive.

Preceded by Catherine Deneuve

Marianne 1989–2000

Succeeded by Laetitia Casta