LOVE4NYC: Karl Lagerfeld Photos Are on Display in Paris

Monday, October 19, 2015

Karl Lagerfeld Photos Are on Display in Paris

Karl Lagerfeld

Un portrait de Dorian Gray

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Karl Lagerfeld Photos Are on Display in Paris (never Seen before)

At Paris’s Pinacothèque de Paris gallery, Lagerfeld’s photographic endeavors are the subject of a new exhibit, open now through March 20, 2016.

There’s seemingly no end to Karl Lagerfeld’s pursuits: Designer, publisher, photographer, collector.

Co-curated by Eric Pfrunder, Chanel’s image director, and Gerhard Steidl, the publisher who partners with Lagerfeld on the “7L” series, the show provides an expansive look at Lagerfeld’s photographs.

Laid out in the spacious galleries are editorial shots of Anna Ewers, self-portraits, and never-before-seen snaps of Lagerfeld muse and model Baptiste Giabiconi. Many of the works are in black-and-white and even more are contemporary renderings of Greek myths—you’ll as soon find Abbey Lee, Bianca Balti, and Giabiconi re-enacting Daphnis and Chloe as you’ll see Heidi Mount lounging in a Vermont field wearing head-to-toe Chanel.