Karl Lagerfeld A Visual Journey

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PINACOTHÈQUE 2
Karl Lagerfeld
A Visual Journey
Photographs
October 16, 2015 – March 20, 2016
PRESS KIT
Title page:
Photo © Karl Lagerfeld 2015
Graphic design © Serge Perraudin –
© Pinacothèque de Paris, 2015
PINACOTHÈQUE DE PARIS
SUMMARY
Karl Lagerfeld, A Visual Journey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Biography of Karl Lagerfeld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Visual Available for the Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Useful Information
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Karl Lagerfeld
The Journey of Odysseus
© 2015 Karl Lagerfeld
PRESS KIT / KARL LAGERFELD, A VISUAL JOURNEY / OCTOBER 16, 2015 > MARCH 20, 2016
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Karl Lagerfeld, A Visual Journey
“Anything that needs to be explained is not worth explaining.” Voltaire
K
arl Lagerfeld, A Visual Journey explores
the wide-ranging motifs, approaches
and media that define Karl Lagerfeld’s
astute and intensely personal interpretation of
photography.
The exhibition reveals Lagerfeld’s many areas of
interest including architecture, landscapes, Paris
by night, portraits and self-portraits, fashion photography, and abstractions (an interest in the graphic characterizes many of his photos, regardless
of their subject). Two grand photo installations –
Daphnis and Chloe and The Journey of Odysseus
– complete this comprehensive display of Lagerfeld’s photographic oeuvre.
Never one to be restricted by a singular way of
seeing, Lagerfeld adapts his photographic style
according to his subject: “People always want to
know from me what my photographic style is. I
can’t say,” he explains, “Those who look at my pictures should say. I don’t have any style, but many
or none. You must not stand still, not in life, not
in fashion and not in photography.” Such creative
flexibility and the desire never to repeat himself
shape Lagerfeld’s photographic vision, as does
his ambition to preserve fleeting impressions that
might otherwise slip by forgotten: “I like transience: fashion is my profession. But the transient
quality of a photo is situated on a completely different plane to that of fashion. It is just as dangerous
to want to take the same photo twice as it is risky
to want to draw one’s inspiration from past collections. The famous ‘never again’ of a single moment
to be seen in a photo gives it a further dimension, a
kind of nostalgia of the moment without being oldfashioned.”
Despite Lagerfeld’s impressive productivity as a
photographer, he began his photographic career
relatively late. He took his first professional photos in 1987, then ironically more out of neces4
sity than choice. “I would never have thought of
making photos myself, if my friend, Eric Pfrunder, Director of Image at Chanel Fashion, had not
one day pressed me to do so when he urgently
needed photos for a presskit. Today photography
is part of my life. It completes the circle between
my artistic and professional restlessness.”
From the beginning, Lagerfeld has concerned
himself as much with different photographic
exposure and printing techniques, as with his
compositions themselves. For him a photo is
never just an image, but a visual object whose
identity depends on the medium in which he
brings it to life. Karl Lagerfeld, A Visual Journey
thus presents the full spectrum of Lagerfeld’s
photographic media, including daguerreotypes,
platinotypes, Polaroid transfers, resinotypes,
Fresson prints, screen-prints and digital prints.
“I am fortunate to be able to do in life what interests
me most: photography, fashion and books, and this
in the best and most perfect conditions. I am very
lucky.” Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld
Self-portrait, New York (detail)
F
ashion designer, photographer, publisher,
designer, as well as film director, Karl
Lagerfeld has created a universe in which
every line is perfectly under control, each detail
of absolute importance. His Cartesian mind has
hatched a caustic, ultramodern, highly structured style, with an allure and manner which
emerge through the graphic symbols that have
become his unequivocal hallmarks.
Karl Lagerfeld instinctively grasps every molecule from the atmosphere and transforms it into
the mood of the moment. His style delves deep
into his cosmopolitan background and his perfect mastery of languages, which he acquired in
Hamburg, where he was born in 1938. As soon as
he had finished his studies in Paris, he entered
the world of fashion as still a very young man, and
in 1954 he won the Woolmark Prize.
Karl Lagerfeld is intriguing and ever-questioning, never leaving anyone indifferent. His ability
to capture, anticipate, and interpret tomorrow’s
trends always fascinates. Just when ready-towear fashions were first taking shape, he embarked on a career as a freelance fashion designer
in France, ltaly, Britain and Germany. ln Paris he
left his mark on Chloé. ln Rome he worked to give
a new look to Fendi furs. His collaboration with
the ltalian fashion house started in 1965 and, over
the years, has extended to all the label’s ready-towear collections, and is still going today. A chameleon of style, Karl Lagerfeld has nevertheless
refined stylistic features of his own, which he
works into his own eponymous line, founded in
1984. One year earlier, he had been called upon to
give new life to Chanel: here he gradually shook
up its stylistic elements, rejuvenated its image,
and introduced a breath of fresh air that allowed
the brand to reassert its supremacy in the world
of luxury and fashion.
Karl Lagerfeld decided to move behind the lens
in 1987, with his first presskit for Chanel at the
request of Eric Pfrunder, image director of the
brand. Since then he has created and shot his own
advertising campaigns for all the brands of which
he is the designer. His passion for photography
and for books transforms his campaigns into
veritable art books (published by Steidl), while
he continues to shoot for prestigious international magazines.
“What I really like is what l’ve never done before,”
says Karl Lagerfeld. Never content with the
countless successes he has achieved in his fashion
career, he has opened out his range of expression, creating opera costumes, revamping the
Diet Coke bottle, opening his 7L bookshop in
1999 and a year later his Editions 7L publishing
house. “Long before I decided to turn to photography myself, I had always been struck by the idea of
expressing my vision of things through an anonymous ‘machine’, as though it were a paintbrush or
a pencil.”
Always in tune with the world around him, Karl
Lagerfeld was the first to agree to take on the
mass market, designing a collection for H&M.
This experience led to a new idea – a “new beginning” – which he started working on in 2012, a
collection based on a new concept: mass-market
ready-to-wear garments steeped in the luxury
and quality of which Karl Lagerfeld’s style is a
symbol: “mass elitism, which has long been my
dream […], it’s the future of modernity.”
“Today, photography is part of my life. I can’t see
life without the vision of photography. I look at the
world and at fashion with the eye of a camera. This
enables me to maintain a critical detachment in my
everyday work, which helps me more than I could
ever have imagined.”
With this taste for photography and his sense of
stage direction, Karl Lagerfeld could not fail to be
turned to as a director for the silver screen. The
results of this new form of applied art – the short
movies that he directs for his multiple collaborations – all reveal a certain idea of Karl Lagerfeld’s
aesthetic vision. A new facet of the fashion designer, and certainly a prelude to future projects…
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Self-portrait, New York
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Self-portrait
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Heidi Mount, Vermont
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Casa Malaparte
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Daphnis and Chloe
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Daphnis and Chloe
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Jessica Stam, American Harper’s Bazaar
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Designed by Man and Nature
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Anna Ewers, Numéro
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Anna Ewers, Numéro
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Kendall Jenner, American Harper’s Bazaar
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Candice Swanepoel, Korean Harper’s Bazaar
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Candice Swanepoel, Korean Harper’s Bazaar
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Monokel Diele, German Vogue
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A Portrait of Dorian Gray
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Coco Rocha, Numéro
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Saskia de Brauw, German Vogue
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Baptiste Giabiconi, German Vogue
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Karl Lagerfeld A Visual Journey

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