SEEING DOUBLE: Angela Lindvall has been immortalized in the Musée Grévin, Paris’ wax museum. The top model’s statue was unveiled at a ceremony on July 3, coinciding with the reopening of the renovated Palais des Mirages, the museum’s 110-year-old optical illusion attraction built for the 1900 World Fair. Despite a busy evening of events and dinners, spotted among the crowd in the museum’s theater were fashion figures such as Adrian Joffe, Michèle Lamy and Daphne Guinness. Dressed in a black silk kadi sheath with a strategically placed lace panel meandering down the front from Redemption’s summer 2014 collection, Lindvall’s figure will stand near other fashion fixtures such as Jean Paul Gaultier, Inès de la Fressange and fellow models Cara Delevingne and Coco Rocha. Scouted at 14 and signed to IMG Models, Lindvall’s career highlights include walking for Jil Sander, Prada, Valentino and Calvin Klein; being named model of the year by Vogue in 1999, and succeeding Stella Tennant as the face of Chanel. In 2001, she added actress to her résumé by starring alongside Gérard Depardieu, Jeremy Davies and Jason Schwartzman in Roman Coppola’s comedy-drama “CQ.” “If this would have happened a long time ago, I could have used two of me to do a

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