Stylist: Amanda Harlech

Vogue - 'Amanda Harlech is one of the fashion industry's leading authorities on style. As well as enjoying a successful career as a consultant, she is well-known for being muse to both John Galliano and Karl Lagerfeld.

Even though her career etc may be in a totally different direction to my own it is still hugely inspirational to have these women in such high positions in these industries. She is clearly extremely talented.

• Harlech was born in Camden, North London in 1959 to Alan Griere and Anne Dulake. Her father was a solicitor and director of the Jerwood Foundation.
• Harlech grew up on the same street as fashion designer, Jasper Conran. She told us: "Even as a five-year-old, I felt I should dress up for him."
• Harlech studied English at the Somerville College of Oxford University.
• Once she graduated, she worked as a junior fashion editor at Harper's & Queen, as well as freelancing for i-D magazine and The Face.
• In 1984, Harlech formed a partnership with John Galliano when he graduated from Central Saint Martins. Galliano remarked that she was, "more than a muse." The two worked together until 1996 when he moved to Dior and she decided not to go with him.
• In 1986, she married Francis Ormsby-Gore, 6th Baron Harlech, at which point she became Lady Amanda Harlech. The couple had two children together: Jasset and Tallulah. The couple divorced in 1998.
• In 1996, she became Karl Lagerfeld's muse. She still works directly with him today on his collections for Chanel and Fendi.
• There has often been confusion about exactly what Harlech's job role is with Lagerfeld. She tried to explain it in an interview with the Financial Times: "I say I am an arch assimilator. I'm quite good at understanding what somebody means. Fashion is the process of articulating an idea, and a proposal of what to wear. Who is that woman in Karl's head? Or that spirit? Or that idea? That's what fascinates me."
• Her father explained to the Sunday Times: "She is the eyes and ears…she can instantly see how something might be improved and this is a gift…I know she's a considerable contributor to what Karl Lagerfeld and Chanel do."
• Harlech mentioned to American Vogue that within her contract, her wage includes a piece of custom-made haute couture from each collection. She told the Independent: "Couture has a power that ready-to-wear can never have…all that love and belief goes into the cloth. That's what you feel when you wear it."
• In 1997, Harlech was added to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame. She spoke to V magazine about how her personal style has transformed: "I moved from deconstructing my school uniform via punk, to Tess of the D'urbervilles and the eponymous Geisha to an edge which I now recognise as 'Amanda'. [My look has become] stronger, more distilled and less scattered."
• In December 2011, Harlech co-curated an exhibition for the Royal Academy of Arts. She asked her famous friends to contribute an item which represented their happiness. Donations came from: Sienna Miller, David Bailey and Erdem, amongst many others. Harlech created a painting especially for the showcase.
• In 2013, Harlech won the Isabella Blow Award for Fashion Creator at the British Fashion Awards. Stella McCartney presented the award.
• In early 2014, she teamed up with Dominic Jones to create a jewellery line called Harlot & Bones. The collection, "is very much about a jewellery piece that tells a story," Harlech told theTelegraph. Her daughter, aspiring actress Tallulah, modelled the collection.
• Harlech spoke about personal style at The Vogue Festival in March 2014. She explained: "Style is anti-fashion; it's not about following trends," and instructed the audience: "Wear armour, even if that means a ball gown at 9am."
• Harlech divides her time between Shropshire and Paris. In Shropshire, she has an idyllic home where she rides her eight horses and looks after her two dogs and two cats. In Paris, she lives in her permanent suite at the Ritz and is on hand to help Lagerfeld with his latest collections.'
• Harlech said to the Independent: "I find the whole process of fashion a fascinating quest of discovery."

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