Michèle Lamy’s Career Beyond the Jaden Smith Rumors

The rumors spread on X and Instagram around November 10. Some accounts circulated supposed photos of the pair kissing and claimed they were engaged. Other posts alleged, without evidence, that Lamy planned to transfer a substantial portion of her property holdings to Smith. The claims have drawn attention to Lamy, whose career spans law, fashion, art and performance.

Born in France in 1944, Lamy studied law in Lyon, worked as a criminal defense attorney and attended philosophy classes taught by Gilles Deleuze. “I don’t regret studying law, because it was a great way to see the misery of our world,” she told PIN–UP. After moving to the United States in 1979, she explored jewelry and fashion, launched a clothing label under her own name and became part of Los Angeles’s nightlife and restaurant scene. Her ventures included Les Deux Cafés, a Hollywood restaurant popular with people from the arts and entertainment industries.

Lamy met designer Rick Owens in Los Angeles in the late 1980s and hired him as a pattern cutter for her label in 1990. Their professional collaboration became a relationship. They founded Owenscorp in 2004 and married in 2006. Lamy has continued to contribute to the company, including its furniture and artistic projects. “Still we seduce each other all the time with the work, with the ideas, with whatever we do,” she said in a 2025 interview with The Observer.

Her work also reaches beyond the brand. Lamy established LAMYLAND in 2014 as an umbrella for independent art, music, performance and cultural projects, and has explored boxing as both an interest and an artistic subject. In March 2026, Performance Space New York honored her work in performance art. The following month, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Fashion and Culture at the Fashion Trust US Awards. Smith, whose career includes acting and music, was named Christian Louboutin’s first men’s creative director in September 2025.