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Fashion moguls buy $50 million pads at One57, NYC’s tallest apartment building

Lawrence Stroll (left) and Silas Chou

Lawrence Stroll (left) and Silas Chou (
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A flashy Canadian billionaire fashion mogul and his low-key Hong Kong business partner are the first known buyers at One57 — which will be the city’s tallest residential building when completed, The Post has learned.

Lawrence Stroll, 53, of Quebec, was catapulted to billionaire status when he and partner Silas Chou took fashion label Michael Kors public last year. Stroll is now estimated to be worth $1.8 billion.

To celebrate, Stroll signed a contract to buy a $50 million apartment in the 90-story building at 157 W. 57th St. that will soon tower above Carnegie Hall across the street.

Chou has also signed a contract to buy a full-floor $50 million apartment, several inside sources told The Post.

Stroll declined to be interviewed. Chou could not be reached.

Both bought homes above the 80th floor, sources said. Full-floor homes begin on the 77th floor. The base of One57, located between Sixth and Seventh avenues, is a Park Hyatt Hotel.

All buyers at One57, including Stroll and Chou, paid 25 percent of the purchase price when they signed to buy, a source told The Post. The deals will close next year, the source added.

Stroll, a father of two, is known for driving fast cars and has a history of annoying his neighbors in Quebec. He owned an apartment at The Sherry-Netherland in Midtown.

In the 1990s, he reportedly outraged neighbors in the posh Westmount section of Montreal by blasting rock to make room for an underground garage to house a collection of Ferraris.

Neighbors of his vacation home on Lake Tremblant grumbled about his helicopter flights, and locals sued him over noise when he bought Circuit Mont-Tremblant, a famed race course in the Laurentian mountains.

He told a newspaper, “I can appreciate that some people are opposed to noise. And I can understand their desire for tranquility, in which case they should not move in next to racetracks, airports or ski hills.”

Stroll began his career buying the Pierre Cardin children’s-wear license for Canada, then Polo Ralph Lauren kids wear for Canada. He launched Polo Ralph Lauren in Europe before co-founding Sportswear Holdings Ltd. with Chou in 2000 and buying British luxury brands Asprey and Garrard.

A Ferrari fanatic, Stroll has let his young son, Lance, drive the cars in a program designed to groom drivers for Formula One, one of the most dangerous sports around.

Last year, Stroll told Official Ferrari Magazine he had dreamed of owning a Ferrari 330 P4 since he was a child. Now he has one and others, including a 250 GTO and a 512M.

In 2010, at age 11, Lance became the youngest person signed to an F1 team. Last year, at age 13, Lance was speeding through Italy in the Ferraris, as part of his “grooming.”

Stroll also has a daughter, Chloe.

Nicky Field, a Sotheby’s broker who has represented the fashion moguls in the past, did not return calls.

But Field was the talk of the town Thursday night, when the developer, Extell Development Company, invited an elite group of brokers — who had sold units in the building or brought prospective clients there — to an event in one of the units.

Some brokers spoke breathlessly of the unit — its finishes and the views of Central Park.

“Hey, if I had $30 million or $50 million to spare, I’d buy here,” one broker joked.

But not all were so impressed.

“The building is not my thing,” one broker sniffed, citing its location, “awkward interior columns” and “ugly” facade.