Karl Lagerfeld and Philippe Starck design covers for Wallpaper* magazine
Karl Lagerfeld, the creative director of French fashion house Chanel, and designer Philippe Starck have created covers for the latest edition of IPC’s interiors magazine Wallpaper*.
Lagerfeld – also head of the Fendi brand – and Starck have been signed up as guest editors for the October issue of Wallpaper*.
The magazine has also signed a raft of partnerships with key advertisers, including luxury furniture companies Ercol,
B&B Italia and Victorinox, which makes Swiss army knives.
Lagerfeld has designed a “peelable” cover for the monthly title, which features model Baptiste Giabiconi, dressed in Dior Homme. Lagerfeld has shot several ad campaigns for Dior. Readers can peel back this image to reveal another cover, which shows the model naked.
Starck, best known for designing high-end hotels, including the St Martin’s Lane hotel in London and the Delano in Miami, has constructed a transparent front cover using three layers of tracing paper. Vodka brand Absolut has produced a specially made advertisement for the issue, which promotes its “Rock edition” bottle.
Wallpaper* claims the paper technologies used by the design duo have never before been used on magazine covers.
Lagerfeld and Starck have each edited large sections of the October issue, which comes out on Thursday. Lagerfeld, also a sought-after photographer, has shot Giabiconi in a variety of historical settings across continental Europe, including Rome and Paris. He also writes about his collection of houses.
Starck has chosen a more philosophical subject for his pages, focusing on mankind’s quest to discover the meaning of life and interviewing scientists, physicists and cosmologists. “It is my mission to make intelligence sexy,” he said.
The Wallpaper* editor-in-chief, Tony Chambers, added: “Like their illustrious predecessors, Lagerfeld and Starck have made full use of their prime piece of Wallpaper* real estate. Both have stepped out of their creative comfort zones to challenge our preconceptions as well as their own.”
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