Tag Archives: Karl Lagerfeld

LAGERFELD AT GALERIE GMURZYNSKA

HOMAGE TO KARL LAGERFELD—30 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY celebrates the voracious image-making practice of the late designer and publisher.

HOMAGE TO KARL LAGERFELD—30 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Through May 15

Galerie Gmurzynska

Talstrasse 37, Zürich.

From top: Karl Lagerfeld, Gone with the Wind, 1996; Karl Lagerfeld, Untitled, 1996; Karl Lagerfeld, Series Eiffel-Turm, 2010; Karl Lagerfeld, Lüstern aber schüchtern, Serie Hommage an Lyonel Feininger, 1997. Images courtesy Galerie Gmurzynska.

KARL LAGERFELD

“I was once a professor at the College of Applied Art in Vienna. In the short period in which I lectured, I realized that I had absolutely no educational fiber whatsoever, that I wasn’t interested in my students. Without being egotistical, what I do is make things. Explaining it to others is not my thing at all. I’m a battlefield person. And generals don’t necessarily make a good minister of war.” — Karl Lagerfeld

“It is with deep sadness that the House of Chanel announces the passing of Karl Lagerfeld, the Creative Director for the Chanel Fashion House since 1983. Virginie Viard, director of Chanel’s fashion creation studio and Lagerfeld’s closest collaborator for more than thirty years, has been entrusted by Alain Wertheimer with the creative work for the collections, so that the legacy of Gabrielle Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld can live on.” — Chanel, February 19, 2019

“I love frivolousness. I know a lot of people who would have disappeared long ago had they not been frivolous… I hate it when the gentlemen with their taffeta and scissors take themselves too seriously. I love everything that is transcient. You should never anchor yourself in an epoch. The tale of Romeo and Juliet lasted only one night, and now it’s the symbol of eternal love.” — Karl Lagerfeld

The fashion designer, creative director, photographer, artist, publisher, bibliophile, actor, author, costumer, and aphorist was a cherished contributor to PARIS LA, supporting Chanel’s campaign collaborations over the last ten years, and creating a poster for Issue 5.

“I have no conception of my valuable time. For me, wasting time is the ultimate luxury. For example, if I’m lying on the couch and reading an interesting book when I should be doing something else, maybe that’s wasting time. But the stimulation of a guilty conscience is extremely creative. It’s the spice of life.” — Karl Lagerfeld

Lagerfeld quotes from Deutsch Vogue Dialogues, “Camouflage, Camouflage: Voyeur Karl Lagerfeld in conversation with his friend Gabriele Henkel, an expert on the stage management of life” (originally published in Deutsch Vogue in 1992), edited by Condé Nast Germany (Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2004), 110–114.

From top: Karl Lagerfeld in Paris, Grand Palais, July 2018; young Lagerfeld in Paris; Lagerfeld with Donna Jordan (left) and Jane Forth in L’Amour (1973), directed by Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey; Lagerfeld in the 1970s; Lagerfeld with Jacques de Bascher, 1970s, photograph © Philippe Heurtault; Yves Saint Laurent and Lagerfeld at the Palace, 1970s; Karl Lagerfeld, photograph from Metamorphoses of an American (Göttingen: Steidl, 2008), his tribute to model Brad Kroenig; Karl Lagerfeld, posters (front and verso) for PARIS LA 5 (Winter 2010–2011); Lagerfeld with Paloma Picasso at Studio 54, photograph by Richard P. Manning.

CHABROL — LA DÉCADE PRODIGIEUSE

Anthony Perkins is a sculptor, Michel Piccoli a philosophy professor, Orson Welles plays God, and Marlène Jobert is his wife (all costumed by Karl Lagerfeld).

Don’t miss this rare screening of Claude Chabrol’s 1971 mystery LA DÉCADE PRODIGIEUSE (Ten Days’ Wonder), part of the Quad series Actor for Hire—The Other Side of Orson Welles.

 

LA DÉCADE PRODIGIEUSE

Tuesday, December 11, at 7:20 pm.

Quad Cinema, 34 West 13th Street, New York City.

Above: Italian poster. Image credit: Notre Cinéma.

Below: Anthony Perkins (left), Marlène Jobert, and Michel Piccoli in La Décade prodigieuse.

ANTONIO LOPEZ

“Antonio didn’t record—he rendered.” — Joan Juliet Buck

ANTONIO LOPEZ 1970—SEX, FASHION & DISCO—an exquisite time capsule directed by James Crump—takes viewers back to the would-be golden age of the early 1970s for an exploration into the lives of artist Antonio Lopez (1943-1987) and his personal and creative partner Juan Ramos (1942-1995) as they navigated the art and fashion worlds of Manhattan and Paris.

With the flashy exuberance that characterized Antonio’s life as well as his drawings, the documentary features extensive on-screen interviews with Antonio discoveries Pat Cleveland, Donna Jordan, Jane Forth, Patti D’Arbanville, Jessica Lange, and Corey Tippin.

Editors Grace CoddingtonJoan Juliet Buck, and Bob Colacello explain Antonio’s various entanglements within the distinct yet overlapping Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld “families,” and the late photographer and Lopez-Ramos confidante Bill Cunningham walks away with the film, giving the last word on Lagerfeld’s final betrayal and Oscar de la Renta’s heroism.*

ANTONIO LOPEZ 1970—SEX, FASHION & DISCO

Through Thursday, October 4.

Laemmle Royal, 11523 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles.

 

Through Thursday, September 27.

Laemmle Playhouse, 673 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena.

 

Post-screening Q & A with director James Crump, Corey Tippin and artist and Lopez estate-director Paul Caranicas

Friday, September 21, at 7:30 pm.

Laemmle Royal

theantoniolopezbook.com

bookdepository.com/Antonio-Lopez-Instamatics

* See Alicia Drake, The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris for an in-depth look at the Antonio LopezJuan RamosKarl Lagerfeld saga.

From top:

Antonio Lopez in Paris, 1970. Photograph by Bill Cunningham.

Corey Tippin, Donna Jordan, Jane Forth, and Jay Johnson in Paris, 1971.

Lopez in the Jardin du Luxembourg, 1971. Photograph by Juan Ramos.

Cunningham and Lopez. Photograph by Ramos.

Jessica Lange. Photographs by Lopez.

Lopez, Tippin, and Jordan.

Image credits: The Estate of Antonio Lopez and Juan Ramos, and Film Movement.