London, July 4 (ANI): Teen prostitute Zahia Dehar, who was embroiled in a scandal for having underage sex with three French footballers just two years ago, has reinvented herself as a lingerie designer and showed her first collection on the Paris catwalks in January earlier this year.
On Monday night, her status as a recognised figure in the fashion industry was cemented as the blonde former courtesan showcased her second collection of lingerie at Paris Couture Week.
Zahia, who modelled some of her designs herself at the show, appeared as a stylised Barbie doll to open the event before a stream of models took to the runway wearing a succession of ever more risque lingerie.
Zahia, now 20, was just 16 when she met French footballer Franck Ribery, 28. She was 17 when his fellow footballing peers Karim Benzema, 23, and Sidney Govou, 31, were accused of paying the underage vice girl thousands of pounds for sex.
Prostitution is legal in France where the accused men lived, but women selling sexual services must be 18 years old or over.
The men involved in the allegations faced up to three years in prison and fines of up to 40,000 pounds.
While the men were disgraced, Zahia capitalised on her notoriety, turning her life around entirely.
Soon after the allegations came to light, Zahia became a lingerie model, appearing on the cover of V magazine and in Vanity Fair Italy, among other publications before turning her hand to couture lingerie.
Entranced by her beauty, and the romantic notion of the history of the French courtesan she had represented, a charmed Karl Lagerfeld photographed her debut look book himself.
With this ultimate seal of approval, the rest, as they say, is history. Zahia Dehar's metamorphosis from courtesan to catwalk queen was complete. (ANI)
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