[AAYi Fashion]A former underage prostitute has launched a line of 'couture' lingerie during Paris' prestigious spring-summer haute couture week.
[AAYi Fashion][AAYi Fashion]Zahia Dehar made headlines in 2010 after being caught up in a sex scandal involving three French football stars.
[AAYi Fashion][AAYi Fashion]The French-Moroccan former prostitute was only 16 years old when she was allegedly paid thousands of dollars to have sex with footballers Franck Ribery, 28, Karim Benzema, 23, and Sidney Govou, 31, according to reports.
[AAYi Fashion][AAYi Fashion]Now Dehar, 19, has turned her attention to fashion, with the release of an underwear range.
[AAYi Fashion]"Such is Zahia's appeal that she has managed to enlist the services of some of the top couturiers in France to help design and craft the range," Britain's Daily Mail has reported.
"Designers including Francois Tamarin, Bruno Legeron, and Jean-Pierre Ollier worked on the one-off pieces.
"And in a stunning coup de grace, Karl Lagerfeld was persuaded to join the project, agreeing to photograph Zahia Dehar modelling the collection."
Lagerfeld, who designs for Chanel and presented his women's spring-summer 2012 haute couture collection for the famous fashion house on Tuesday, snapped the shots used in Dehar's lookbook.
The former lingerie model said being photographed by Lagerfeld was a dream come true.
"[The photoshoot was] very, very funny, like Vargas pin-ups. It was fun to do her," Lagerfeld said.
Lagerfeld said Zahia should be celebrated in the manner of traditional French escorts, The Mail reported.
"She is a very French courtesan, like Liane de Pougy or the Belle Otero," Lagerfeld said.
But he pointed out that although he took the photos for the lookbook, he had "nothing to do with her collection".
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