Baptiste Giabiconi

Baptiste Giabiconi (born 9 November 1989) is a French model, singer, and muse of Karl Lagerfeld from Marignane, France.

For many years, he was the male face of major fashion houses Chanel, Fendi and Karl Lagerfeld.

Born in Marignane, Bouches-du-Rhône, Baptiste Giabiconi comes from a Corsican family.

His father is from Bastia and his mother Marie-France from Calvi, both in Corsica.

He spent his infancy in Moriani-Plage in the Haute-Corse region very near to Bastia, before moving to Marseille.

He obtained a Brevet d'études professionnelles (BEP) in the food service industry, and a professional Baccalauréat in "Accueil et Service".

Then he trained for six months as a mechanical adjustor in Aeronautics, landing a job at Eurocopter, an international helicopter manufacturing and support company.

In January 2007, a talent scout seeing him in a Marseille sport club suggested he apply to a local Marseille modelling firm run by a local photographer.

Giabiconi compiled a modelling file that was sent to a number of modeling agents but with no results and no offers forthcoming.

He returned to Marseille but continued to model locally.

In 2008, Giabiconi signed with DNA Model Management New York.

In the same year Karl Lagerfeld named Giabiconi the male face of Chanel, closing the haute couture house's shows in 2009 with Freja Beha Erichsen and Lara Stone and in 2010 with Abbey Lee and Iris Strubegger.

In 2010, he appeared in Schwarzkopf ads becoming the face of their products.

He has also appeared in fashion spreads in Vogue (including Vogue Paris, Vogue Japan and Vogue Germany, Elle, Numéro Homme, V Man, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, Purple Fashion, Giorgio Armani and L'Officiel Hommes, Interview, Wallpaper. In spring 2010, he was photographed for the Roberto Cavalli campaign, alongside Kate Moss and for Karl Lagerfeld. In 2010, he made the cover of L'Officiel Homme, posed for Envy, Elle (Paris and Belgium editions), Grazia, Vogue Germany. He appeared alongside Lara Stone in the short film Vol de jour by Karl Lagerfeld for the Chanel collection.

Baptiste was placed at number 1 on models.com listing of the Top 50 international male models for roughly two years before being replaced by Sean O'Pry.

Giabiconi released his debut single "Showtime" in 2010.

In 2011, he appeared in ads for the German car maker Volkswagen alongside Karl Lagerfeld.

He was in the campaign for series of parfums, watches and eyeglasses of the brand Karl Lagerfeld.

He was also the face of the headphone Monster.

Giabiconi became the face of Coca-Cola Light, alongside Coco Rocha.

The campaign was photographed by Lagerfeld.

In 2011, he was the image of Spring-Summer Edition of H&M.

As of September 2011, he was placed on the more prominent "Icons" list of male models where he shares the No. 10 ranking with top male model, Werner Schreyer.

At the age of 16, in 2011, he auditioned for Nouvelle Star without qualifying for selection to the live rounds.

In 2012, he announced an agreement with My Major Company fan-funded label to produce his debut album entitled Oxygen.

The album with 13 tracks all in English language was released in September 2012 and entered the SNEP French Albums Chart straight in at number 1.

The lead single from the album was "One Night in Paradise", a pre-release in promotion of the album.

The follow-up single from the album is called "Speed of Light (L'amour & les étoiles)" and was released on 2 September 2012.

A third single "Je te aime" was also released.

In 2012, he took part in tribute album project dedicated to Jean-Jacques Goldman songs called Génération Goldman singing Goldman's "Là-bas" as a duo with Quebec singer Marie-Mai.

He was also on the track "Il suffira d'un signe" on the same album, singing with Merwan Rim, Amaury Vassili and Dumè.

In June 2014, he released his second album Un homme libre on Be 1st / Smart (a Sony Music affiliate) and his debut as a French language album with 12 tracks.

The album unlike the first chart-topping album had only modest success reaching number 44 on the French SNEP Albums Chart.

One single titled "Je t'emmène avec moi" charted from the album.

However Giabiconi's biggest musical success was in 2016 with his cover of the Donna Summer hit "Love to Love You Baby" but with added lyrics and new EDM arrangement.

The release was accompanied by an erotic music video.

It made it to number 4 on the official French Singles Chart.

With two associate partners Patrice Merlo et Alexis Leng, Giabiconi created a theme restaurant called Tokio Sushi.

In January 2020, he took part in the show Stars à nu presented by Alessandra Sublet alongside many other stars.

The closing choreography was designed by Chris Marques.