Martha Stewart: Former CHANEL Model! (PHOTOS)

Styleite.com has done something medal-worthy: they unearthed photos of Martha Stewart from her modeling days in the early 1960s.

On "Martha" this morning, Andre Leon Talley disclosed that Karl Lagerfeld recently told him that Stewart was once a Chanel model. Who knew? So Styleite dug around and found some incredible images (albeit not from the Chanel shoots). Here are our two favorites. See a bunch more HERE.

Comments

[wietogger]

04:30 AM on 05/04/2010

Wow - even back then she was resourceful! A nautical flag becomes a prudish one-piece, and a burlap sack is transformed into a sensible blouse!

[meekasop]

03:52 AM on 05/04/2010

Such a classy lady. And even if i'm a girl, she looks very appealing. Opinions. http://migre.me/BywV

[Ozark Homesteader]

11:39 PM on 05/02/2010

How many people remember that Stewart was prosecuted for a miniscule foray into insider trading compared to what normally would have attracted regulators because she was a big supporter of the Democratic party? anyone? anyone? Repeated comments about her time in jail do not seem to fit here.

[cincinnati]

02:57 AM on 05/03/2010

No doubt she was a political target, and a warning to other Dem's.

Her pic's of when a model are nice, a knock out to some men,
and not bad now.

[antaeus]

11:02 PM on 05/03/2010

Jeffrey Toobin of "The New Yorker" is hardly a reactionary Republican, but even he was contemptuous of Stewart after it became apparent she had lied both to him and to government investigators. If she had simply owned up to the "miniscule foray" from the beginning, then she probably would never have gone to jail.

[rbryanh]

10:39 PM on 05/02/2010

Martha didn't reach the true pinnacle of her brutal allure until she was led off to jail. Chanel? Please... Nothing is more glamorous than hand cuffs.

[Stockbroker38]

11:33 PM on 05/02/2010

Imagine how shocked we're going to be one day when the to-be felon Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs reveals his Playgirl shots.

[brooklyncitizen]

08:23 PM on 05/02/2010

She's still pretty impressive, criminal record and all.

[happycat]

08:15 PM on 05/02/2010

She has always been a stunning woman. Always.

[FGDinVA]

07:58 PM on 05/02/2010

The Joan Jetson look suits her. :D

[MIVOTE]

07:18 PM on 05/02/2010

I like Martha...she's truly a woman with a lot of experiences...that keeps life interesting. You go Martha!

[Red45]

06:06 PM on 05/02/2010

rock it, martha

[enlightened45]

04:28 PM on 05/02/2010

Martha and fraud, from preparing Thanksgiving dinner to Wall Street investing......go together like peas and carrots or taupe and teal, whatever.....

[PresidentRobertBooth]

03:10 PM on 05/02/2010

Best looking future convict I've ever seen

[Stockbroker38]

11:30 PM on 05/02/2010

If I were gay, I'd say the same thing about Lloyd Blankfein.

[cincinnati]

02:59 AM on 05/03/2010

he reminds me of maybe a WW 2 German sub commander,
or a safe cracker...

[Itsmyland2]

01:58 PM on 05/02/2010

Martha was a Betty

[mspink]

12:50 PM on 05/02/2010

There is nothing Martha can't do.

[knightoftheroundtable]

11:03 PM on 05/02/2010

Ya, like insider trading. She still belongs in jail.

[LiberTLover]

09:01 AM on 05/03/2010

If all the people who engage in insider trading and more were convicted as she was, Wall Street and Corporation boardrooms would be ghost towns.

[zest]

12:03 PM on 05/02/2010

Who does Martha resemble, though it is certainly not her darling mother.

[henrypapillon]

11:43 AM on 05/02/2010

I think she could still cook something up between the sheets.