Baptiste Giabiconi

Baptiste Giabiconi (born 9 November 1989) is a French model, singer, and muse of Karl Lagerfeld from Marignane, France.

Then he trained for six months as a mechanical adjustor in Aeronautics, landing a job at Eurocopter, an international helicopter manufacturing and support company.

In the same year Karl Lagerfeld named Giabiconi the male face of Chanel, closing the haute couture house's shows in 2009 with Freja Beha Erichsen and Lara Stone and in 2010 with Abbey Lee and Iris Strubegger.

In 2010, he made the cover of L'Officiel Homme, posed for Envy, Elle (Paris and Belgium editions), Grazia, Vogue Germany.

He appeared alongside Lara Stone in the short film Vol de jour by Karl Lagerfeld for the Chanel collection.

Baptiste was placed at number 1 on models.com listing of the Top 50 international male models for roughly two years before being replaced by Sean O'Pry.

In 2012, he announced an agreement with My Major Company fan-funded label to produce his debut album entitled Oxygen.

The follow-up single from the album is called "Speed of Light (L'amour & les étoiles)" and was released on 2 September 2012.

He was also on the track "Il suffira d'un signe" on the same album, singing with Merwan Rim, Amaury Vassili and Dumè.

With two associate partners Patrice Merlo and Alexis Leng, Giabiconi created a theme restaurant called Tokio Sushi.

[7] In 2016, Giabiconi published a calendar of 26 black and white photos photographed by Mariano Vivanco on éditions Michel Lafon.

However the venture soon turned sour and he was obliged to pend his resignation from the club position after a critical audit by Direction Nationale du Contrôle de Gestion (DNCG), the organization responsible for monitoring and overseeing the accounts of professional association football clubs in France.

[12] He admitted at 18 he was a "blank page" and at the most opportune time was greatly affected as a young man by Lagerfeld.

[19][citation needed] But people close to the family deny that he is part of the will and that the relations between the two had been strained for some time prior to Lagerfeld's death from prostate cancer.