Karl Lagerfeld - Designer

[LadyJunon]

Nobody designs for every woman - an interview from 1989:

 

[yslforever]

That may have been fueled by his long going rivalry with YSL.

Not that's entirely on Jacques de Bascher playing perverse love games between KL and YSL, even though all their friends from this era thought Bascher was fake and totally unsufferable and never understood the appeal he had on YSL and then KL.

 

[IndigoHomme]

(not sure where anyone outside the UK will be able to watch)

According to Variety, the documentary has been sold to Prime Video to Australia, Canada, and NZ, I can't wait to watch it!

 

[LadyJunon]

Loïc Prigent interviews the heads of the Chanel and Fendi ateliers:

 

[Lola701]

Loïc Prigent interviews the heads of the Chanel and Fendi ateliers:

It was so good that I wish it was longer…
For me the best thing about a designer is the technical part.
The Art of drawing seems totally from another time today but back in the days, it was important for a designer to draw because it was an expression of his creativity but a drawing was only valid if backed by high technical skills. And this little YouTube documentary expressed that!

I’m excited to see the exhibition even if I’m a bit afraid of what it might look like.

 

[LadyJunon]

It was so good that I wish it was longer…
For me the best thing about a designer is the technical part.
The Art of drawing seems totally from another time today but back in the days, it was important for a designer to draw because it was an expression of his creativity but a drawing was only valid if backed by high technical skills. And this little YouTube documentary expressed that!

I’m excited to see the exhibition even if I’m a bit afraid of what it might look like.

I think that the magic with Karl's (and lots of other old age couturiers') drawings is that despite their stylisation, each sketch clearly shows the silhouette, volumes, seam placement, slits, buttons, etc.

Even when drawing isn't 100% clear for example: the gown with the asymmetrical shoulders, he has the skills necessary to be able to communicate what he wants to the ateliers.

 

[vogue28]

Karl Lagerfeld’s Legacy in Fashion, according to Vogue:

 

[LadyJunon]

Chloé is holding a traveling mini-exhibition of Karl's designs under the house:

 

[Deleted member 116957]

Daniel Brühl on set and in costume as Karl...

 

[Salvatore]

I am interested.

 

[Deleted member 116957]

I thought this was an interesting curiosity, I found a photo of Karl at Christian Dior's funeral, with Victoire Doutreleau (and Anne-Marie Munoz, maybe). I've never seen it before.

(GettyImages, photographer: Francois Pages)

 

[Lola701]

Interesting but it makes sense because Balmain was with Dior at Lucien Lelong and Karl was his assistant. And I guess the industry was so small anyway that everybody was at this kind of events…

‘I’m curious to know if he was at Chanel’s funerals because at the time he recognized for his lack of creative filiation with her compared to YSL for example.

 

[Caffeine]

For anyone in the UK (not sure where anyone outside the UK will be able to watch), there's a brilliant upon brilliant BBC documentary entitled 'The Mysterious Mr Lagerfeld' which is a fascinating watch:





BBC.CO.UK

Tons of archival footage and interviews from various friends of Karl Lagerfeld (including Carine Roitfeld, Colombe Pringle, Brad Kroenig and Sébastien Jondeau to name a few).

A 10/10 from me after watching!

Thank you so much for this. I will watch now!

 

[kasper!]

I feel like they never take it seriously....In Hong Kong it only lasted 2 days. It is KARL not some random designers I beg your pardon?

 

[gazebo]

off-hand Miuccia always struck me as the most racist since she DID have the runway show where the porters were all black and the actual models were white. That was no mistake.

What show was that please?

 

[Lola701]

What show was that please?

I think the reference is from her first runway show…FW1988.

I wouldn’t qualify her as a racist because in a show in 1988 the porters were black.
I’m more interested in how she treated/treat people of colors, how things are going in her company….

The industry displayed racist behavior anyway. I mean, Karl’s best friend and his design director for 20 years were black men and he has managed in that time frame to not have black models on his shows.

‘Azzedine Alaia himself, a Tunisian man, with Arabs and black collaborators and a black casting director has managed to have all white casts for his shows for a decade. Nobody would say that he is racist despite having displayed racist behavior.

‘We need more nuance in this world…

 

[LadyJunon]

‘Azzedine Alaia himself, a Tunisian man, with Arabs and black collaborators and a black casting director has managed to have all white casts for his shows for a decade. Nobody would say that he is racist despite having displayed racist behavior.

‘We need more nuance in this world…

Imagine being a black (or any other POC) casting director that only casts white models...

 

[Lola701]

Imagine being a black (or any other POC) casting director that only casts white models...

That was Maida Gregory-Boina for you…

 

[LadyJunon]

That was Maida Gregori-Boina for you…

Wasn't she one of the casting directors that got called out by James Scully back in 2017?

I believe it was because she and Rami Fernandes locked models for three hours in a building when they went out for lunch. He also called out Lanvin because of the all-white casting directive.

Funny enough, Boina is still casting shows (Hermès, Elie Saab, Botter), while Scully hasn't cast anything since 2018 (his Instagram is just full of thirst traps with the occasional Twitter screenshot).

 

[Lola701]

Wasn't she one of the casting directors that got called out by James Scully back in 2017?

I believe it was because she and Rami Fernandes locked models for three hours in a building when they went out for lunch. He also called out Lanvin because of the all-white casting directive.

Funny enough, Boina is still casting shows (Hermès, Elie Saab, Botter), while Scully hasn't cast anything since 2018 (his Instagram is just full of thirst traps with the occasional Twitter screenshot).

Yes it was her…

Scully retired. He retired in the 2000’s but then came back because of Tom Ford if I remember well but then he retired for good again.