FASHION Magazine

Romanian-born, Montreal-raised Irina Lazareanu has pounded the runways for everyone from Chanel, Christian Dior and 3.1 Phillip Lim to Sonia Rykiel, Rick Owens and Yohji Yamamoto. But it’s her off-catwalk life that she’s famous for: She’s friends with Kate Moss, is working on her own album with Sean Lennon and has played drums for Pete Doherty and his band, Babyshambles (she’s also been romantically linked—or at least rumoured to be—with both of them). She brought her signature bangs and cool, badass appeal to the opening of the Joe Fresh Style flagship in Vancouver, and FASHION snatched a moment with her to talk all things love.

You walked in the Joe show in Toronto last spring. Did you know the company before that? “That was my first time working with them, and it was really amazing. It was my first Canadian show, my mom was there, and I felt so at home.”

This interview is for our February issue, and the theme is love. “Ooooh.”

Obviously, there are things everyone wonders about your relationships. “I love that. I’m very open—I mean, what else is there to know that people don’t already know?”

Old rumours are resurfacing for the Versace family: A new book written by Giuseppe Di Bella claims Gianni Versace was murdered over unpaid debts to the Calabrian mafia. [Telegraph]

Russian model Sasha Pivovarova, who is also a skilled artist, is collaborating with Karl Lagerfeld on an illustrated update of a Russian fairy tale. [NYT]