1/28/2024 0 Comments Blue and white star wallpaper![]() He clinched his place in fashion history by rescuing Chanel in the 1980s (one fashion editor had written it off as ‘Seconal City’), and thus triggering the 'Lazarus' syndrome of resurrecting deadbeat fashion brands. Karl Lagerfeld is a very, very famous fashion designer, who started off as an assistant to Pierre Balmain then worked for Jean Patou in the late 1950s, before designing for Fendi and Chloé. This particular guest editor of Wallpaper* needs little introduction, although for the benefit of readers who have recently returned from a Carthusian retreat, here’s a quick crammer. ‘Oh, don’t look at me today,’ he cries in mock horror, as though I could count on him to look completely different on another day. Today it consists of: a skinny black jacket (Dior Homme) skinny black jeans (ditto) starched white shirt with a fine blue stripe and four-inch collar (Hilditch & Key) skinny black tie pinned with a pretty diamond and pearl brooch (Lydia Courteille) diamond-encrusted fobs (Chrome Hearts) an S&M-ish pair of fingerless black leather gloves (Chanel) white powdered ponytail (his own). (Lagerfeld recently switched brands from Coke after a kerfuffle over calorie content.) His sole responsibility seems to be to ensure the boss can take a sip or two of fizzily fresh cola whenever he wishes.Īs for what he is wearing, it might not be what you would expect from a septuagenarian on a country jaunt, but it’s the uniform Lagerfeld has favoured ever since he shed 103 pounds a few years ago, and wrote about it in a best-selling diet book. I like this idea of them being tempted by modernity without letting go of the conventions of bourgeois life.’Įvery so often, one of the black-clad assistants approaches with a silver tray bearing a single glass of Pepsi Max. But it is amusing to have a glimpse, to take a look, to see what they considered modern. I didn’t know these people or live in their world, the intellectual French art world, which was pretentious in a way. ‘It isn’t even a period I like that much. ‘You know, this isn’t to my taste,’ he says with a cackle. Karl Lagerfeld looks rather pleased with himself. In this extract, Alice Rawsthorn meets the outspoken designer to hear more about his then-current obsessions – from a Marc Newson necklace for Boucheron to Alvar Aalto‘s Maison Louis Carré and designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec’s ‘Pebble’ furniture – which were then photographed by Lagerfeld around the world. Need help choosing a substrate? Find out more information about each material here.Ahead of the exhibition’s opening on, we look back into the Wallpaper* archive to the October 2009 issue, which Lagerfeld guest-edited, including a peel-off ‘strip tease’ cover featuring model Baptiste Giabiconi. Please contact for custom lengths, pricing or additional substrate options. You can also request to have the paper printed on a continual bolt with no breaks in the panels. Roll Sizes: 52" wide by either 9' long, 10'6" long, or 12' long (comes on 54" wide untrimmed rolls)Īll of our designs are digitally printed to order, which allows us to print custom roll lengths for a unique wall height. Through its links with the great eight-fold systems of East and West, the trigrams of the I Ching, and the Pagan Wheel of the Year, it offers connotations of wholeness, rebirth and cyclical infinity. It is a symbol of regeneration in the Christian religion as well as the Eightfold Path in the Buddhist tradition. Stars pays homage to the eight-pointed star, or octagram, which has many meanings-religious, astrological and otherwise.
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