Remembering Karl Lagerfeld on his birthday 🎂
📷 Ian Cook, 1992
"More than anyone I know, he represents the soul of fashion: restless, forward-looking and voraciously attentive to our changing culture."
- Anna Wintour
📷 Ian Cook, 1992
"More than anyone I know, he represents the soul of fashion: restless, forward-looking and voraciously attentive to our changing culture."
- Anna Wintour
I love this picture!
John Baldessari
Karl Lagerfeld, 2015
Both now gone, sadly.
John Baldessari
Karl Lagerfeld, 2015
Both now gone, sadly.
Karl Lagerfeld by Jean-Baptiste Mondino, 2015
"He combined a historian’s knowledge of the past with a diarist’s curiosity about the present, and subjected them to the ruthlessness that ruled his life."
- Veronica Horwell
"He combined a historian’s knowledge of the past with a diarist’s curiosity about the present, and subjected them to the ruthlessness that ruled his life."
- Veronica Horwell
Karl Lagerfeld with his cat Choupette
I've seen captions online that describe this as a self-portrait, but it's obviously from the same 2015 Jean-Baptiste Mondino photoshoot as the last Tweet.
I've seen captions online that describe this as a self-portrait, but it's obviously from the same 2015 Jean-Baptiste Mondino photoshoot as the last Tweet.
Horst P. Horst
Library with 1930s chairs & drawings by Rene Buthaud in designer Karl Lagerfeld's apartment in Paris
Vogue, September 1974
Library with 1930s chairs & drawings by Rene Buthaud in designer Karl Lagerfeld's apartment in Paris
Vogue, September 1974
Todd Selby
Karl Lagerfeld in his library, 2009
Lagerfeld collected books, a copy to shelve plus another to gut for images. He was often described as an auto-didact. I can see that happening.
Karl Lagerfeld in his library, 2009
Lagerfeld collected books, a copy to shelve plus another to gut for images. He was often described as an auto-didact. I can see that happening.
Abbas
Collection of Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel
January, 1986
"His pastiches of Coco’s classics were passable and his learning about his predecessor unsurpassed: 'I’m like a computer who’s plugged into the Chanel mode,' he said."
- Veronica Horwell
Collection of Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel
January, 1986
"His pastiches of Coco’s classics were passable and his learning about his predecessor unsurpassed: 'I’m like a computer who’s plugged into the Chanel mode,' he said."
- Veronica Horwell
Karl Lagerfeld with Cara Delavigne, 2014
📷 Alex Majoli
"He lives out his own legend in every way he can think of, with every instinct he has, & in a world of stolid conventions, he has the courage to perpetuate a vision of something wonderful."
- Andrew O’Hagan
📷 Alex Majoli
"He lives out his own legend in every way he can think of, with every instinct he has, & in a world of stolid conventions, he has the courage to perpetuate a vision of something wonderful."
- Andrew O’Hagan
A fine portrait of Karl Lagerfeld by Ferdinando Scianna, 2002
"There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to."
"There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to."
"Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests."
- Karl Lagerfeld
📷 Ferdinando Scianna
Budapest, 1990
- Karl Lagerfeld
📷 Ferdinando Scianna
Budapest, 1990
Karl Lagerfeld was himself a very fine photographer. This is his shot of model Shalom Harlow for Chanel Campaign 1996
Another outstanding photo by Karl Lagerfeld of Shalom Harlow for Chanel Campaign 1996. Fashion photography has another layer when the photographer also designs the clothes.
Karl Lagerfeld's portrait of Julianne Moore, 2011
Karl Lagerfeld the photographer dabbles in a bit of surrealism: “Riti”, from 1989
My bear & I have enjoyed making this Karl Lagerfeld thread on his birthday.
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