Karl Lagerfeld Ordre des livres

L'intégralité des campagnes photographiques Haute Couture et Prêt-à-Porter de Karl Lagerfeld pour Chanel, en plus de 600 prises de vue, réalisées entre 1987 et 2018, et réunies pour la première fois en un volume.

Paris Photo is the world’s largest art fair dedicated to photography and annually attracts thousands of artists, professionals, collectors and enthusiasts to Paris’ Grand Palais—this year from 9 to 12 November. Over 180 galleries and publishers present a comprehensive historical panorama of photography, from vintage prints to the latest contemporary works and everything in between. But how are we to best navigate this almost overwhelming photographic bounty? Paris Photo by Karl Lagerfeld provides the answer by presenting Karl Lagerfeld’s personal selection of his favorite photos from the thousands on show at this year’s fair. We are thus able to “visit” Paris Photo as if in Lagerfeld’s own company, and enjoy his curated perspective that is shaped by his decades of experience as a photographer, photobook publisher and book dealer. Lagerfeld’s chosen photos will also be indicated at Paris Photo itself, allowing us to wander the fair through Lagerfeld’s eyes.

Built in the 1920s by the Bauhaus-inspired architect Robert Mallet-Stevens in Hyères in Southern France, Villa Noailles is a place of timeless modernity. Originally the home of art patrons Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles, the villa welcomed artists such as Man Ray, Buñuel, Dalí, and Cocteau, who inspired and took inspiration from their hosts. Despite its incredible charm, the building was subsequently abandoned and slowly succumbed to the passage of time, only to be re-discovered in the early 1990s as a perfect symbol of interwar “modern.” Karl Lagerfeld’s graphic photographs of Villa Noailles, taken in the summer of 1995, were published in that year in the now collectible Steidl book Villa de Noailles. Now, two decades later, Lagerfeld has re-edited and updated his vision in this new book Villa Noailles, Hyères–Été 1995, which once again visualizes the villa’s avant-garde architecture and its historical shadows.

Karl Lagerfeld se distingue par son sens de la repartie. Caustique, piquant, paradoxal et plein d'humour, il lance à tous vents piques et formules, au fil d'une conversation passionnante et totalement libre. C'est tout l'esprit de cette conversation, ce qu'elle dit du style, de la mode, de la gloire, de Chanel, des livres, du monde d'aujourd'hui et de lui-même qu'ont recueilli les auteurs du présent ouvrage. Se dessine ainsi le portrait d'un virtuose de la création, cosmopolite émérite, européen convaincu, lecteur acharné, devenu une "icône" non seulement de la mode, mais plus encore d'une culture mondialisée.

Davantage qu'un photographe de mode, Newton est le chroniqueur d'une classe sociale qui le fascine, celle des gens riches, dont il perce les apparences