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Lagerfeld's Look

September 1990
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Lagerfeld's Look
September 1990

Lagerfeld's Look

Where style meets substance

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Designer Karl Lagerfeld inhabits his own panhistorical time zone of carefully chosen cultural references, sparked by a sharp sense of the absurd. Now, as a photographer, fashion's polyglot polymath has attempted to freeze that world, and the results are on view in Karl Lagerfeld Photographer (Benedikt Taschen), a sleek black volume of portraits and fashion pictures at once classical and perverse, with sources of inspiration ranging from Greuze to Mahler, from Roman antiquity to German silent film.