Marie-Hélène Françoise Arnaud (24 September 1934 â€" 6 October
1986) was a French model and actress. Working as a house model for the
French fashion house Chanel, she was the "face of Chanel" in the
1950s; she also developed a second career as an actress.Arnaud was
born on 24 September 1934 in Montmorency in the northern suburbs of
Paris. During her time as a model and actress she had high-profile
relationships with actor Robert Hossein and film producer Sam Spiegel,
and was linked with French politician Georges Pompidou and writer and
politician André Malraux. She was found dead in her bath on 6 October
1986 in Paris, France, with the cause of death unknown, and was buried
in Monchy-Humières, near Estrées-Saint-Denis.The French designer
Coco Chanel launched her first post-war collection at her rue Cambon
showroom in Paris on 5 February 1954. For the show she approached
Marie-Hélène de Rothschild to ask her friends whether they would
appear on the catwalk; Chanel had decided to use "personalities",
women "with bosoms and hips â€" with a real shape â€" they must have
elegance", rather than the sylphlike and anonymous models she had use
pre-war whose function was to bring attention to the clothes rather
than themselves, following Chanel's precept that just as a watch told
the time, a model should "tell the dress". Marie-HÃ(c)lène Arnaud Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter