At Home With Michele Lamy: The Woman Behind Rick Owens. ByHannah Elliott, Former Staff. I cover the fun stuff: Fashion, Cars and Culture. Dec 18, 2013, 02:58pm EST Dec 18, 2013, 03:32pm EST.

Michèle Lamy, the co-founder of Owenscorp and multihyphenate artist shares her world with beauty impresario Edward Bess in a new book.

So why, then, is the MOCA exhibition titled “Rick Owens: Furniture”? “The logic is very much the logic of the fashion world,” MOCA chief curator Helen Molesworth said.

“I have an exhausting optimism,” Michèle Lamy laughs as she sips tea at the Rose Bakery at the top of concept store Dover Street Market in London. She’s clutching a weighty mug with her ink ...