Irina Lăzăreanu
Irina Lazareanu ( born June 8, 1982 in Romania ) is a Canadian musician and photo model.
With four years Lazareanu and her parents arrived in a refugee camp in Salzburg. She grew up in Montreal. As a thirteen- year-old, she received a scholarship to the Ballet School of the Royal Academy in London. Your dancing career was ended by a knee injury.
She was briefly drummer of the band Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty and romantically involved with. At 15, she met the 18 -year-old Doherty. Later she was with him and his girlfriend later, the British supermodel Kate Moss, on tour. Moss was finally, they introduced into the modeling industry. Before long she was on covers of some well-known fashion magazines, like to see the Vogue. As guest editor of French Vogue Moss Lazareanu chose for the December / January issue of Vogue Paris. Steven Meisel photographed Lazareanu for the cover of Italian Vogue. Since then Lazareanu is considered popular photo model, also known as a runway model works in addition to various photo shoots to fashion shows. After Lazareanu had been seen in a season on 76 catwalks, they were called "the fashion tornado ". She works for many top designers, including Chanel, Balenciaga (where they muse of Nicolas Ghesquière was ), Alexander McQueen, Anna Sui, Lanvin, Versace, Michael Kors, Marc Jacobs, Missoni, Pucci, Burberry, Fendi.
Karl Lagerfeld chose Lazareanu 2006 as the new face of Chanel brand. Lagerfeld described Lazareanu as " a mixture of Coco Chanel and Anna de Noailles ".
Subcontract it stands at the agencies Marilyn (New York and Paris), Why Not Models (Milan), Storm Models ( London) and Giovanni ( Montreal).
In March 2007, Lazareanu was chosen by Moss as the model for their new TopShop line.
Away from her modeling career, she is also known as a songwriter. Along with Sean Lennon recorded her debut album, which is expected to be called Some Place Along the Way. Lagerfeld and Lennon could present their music with his Chanel show in December 2007.
Besides Doherty Lazareanu was associated with Jamie Hince of The Kills.