“I decided to make pain a life force”, Farida Khelfa, from Minguettes to Haute Couture

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“I decided to make pain a life force”, Farida Khelfa, from Minguettes to Haute Couture

In the 1980s, her long brown figure appeared in every magazine, on every runway at high fashion shows. Farida Khelfa, the face of Jean-Paul Goude, Azzedine Alaïa and Jean-Paul Gaultier, grew up in Les Minguettes in Vénissieux. Today she recounts her incredible journey in a book, A French Childhood.