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"I don't think that much about fashion. I suppose I like putting together outfits without too much thought and seeing what the outcome is," Vanessa Paradis has said. "About designers, it has to be Karl Lagerfeld. I met him at a show in 2003 and have stayed friends since. What I love about him, apart from being the fantastic designer, is he smells gorgeous all the time!"

At left, Paradis outside the Chanel Spring 2012 couture show in Paris in January 2012.