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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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Karl Lagerfeld muses about Baptiste Giabiconi to WWD.

“I think after the ugly skinny boys of Hedi [Slimane’s] days…some ‘beauty’ was needed, but new beauty.”

WWD asked Lagerfeld why more men are suddenly turning up in women’s fashion ads and editorials: “It’s very simple,” Lagerfeld explained. “They put the girls in a more lifestyle situation. Lonely girls can be a little sad in a fashion story. They dress not only for other girls, but also to please men. The popularity is sudden because there are a few new faces.”

Lagerfeld likens Giabiconi, now rated number one on Models.com, to “a boy version of Gisele [Bündchen]: skinny, skinny but with an athletic body — good for clothes and great with no clothes.”

According to Lagerfeld, Giabiconi evokes envy even in other models. He recounted that when Naomi Campbell met him in Moscow recently, she told him, “It’s not right: We all have defects. You have none.”

Image Baptiste Giabiconi – Purple

Chanel Haute Couture fall winter 2009/2010: “The making of a couture outfit”

Every piece of haute couture clothing is the product of hours upon hours of manual labor.

Karl Lagerfeld Spring Summer 2008 Full Show [HIGH DEFINITION]

As sewers and designers, we all have our inspirations, and favorites. Karl Lagerfeld has long been one of mine. He has long been a poster child for doing things your own way, and doing them with style.  Knowing this, what can I say? I had to pass this on to you. Karl Lagerfeld, designer extraordinaire or Chanel is starring in  children’s animated movie “Totally Spies! Le Film”  that opens in Europe this week.

Totally Spies is a popular children’s cartoon that runs in Europe. As the film’s villain, Fabu, he’s going to rock. Don’t speak french or live in Europe? No worries. He’s also dubbing himself in German and English versions. Whahoo! the trifecta! I wonder if Fabu will be holding a fan! Lagerfeld’s last turn on the silver screen was in 1973 in Warhol’s L’Amour.

Mr Lagerfeld was tapped to do Fabu because of his natural frenetic nature. He says that he talks that way because he knows three languages. Really? Funny, my exchange student also spoke three languages, and she was certainly not frenetic.

Sourse: examiner.com

In the September issue of Harper’s Bazaar, the editors ran a cutesy feature titled ‘What Would Coco Do?’. With the new film Coco Before Chaneldue out this autumn, says the headline, “Bazaarwondered what the notoriously feisty Madame Chanel would say about the world after Chanel. So we asked [current Chanel designer] Karl Lagerfeld to channel the original fashion wit.”

One of these exchanges goes like so:

Harper’s Bazaar: Your clothing liberated women in the 1920s. Are you still a feminist?

Lagerfeld-as-Chanel: I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.

This quip rankled me on many levels: as a woman, as a fashion consumer, as a writer for both adult and young women. It is a spiteful, irrelevant observation: one’s appearance has nothing to do with one’s relationship to feminism. In my mind, a feminist is any woman who believes that women – like men – have the right to determine their own individual destinies, barred neither by law nor cultural convention from doing so. I am proud to count myself in that category.

That Madame Chanel did not consider herself a feminist is well-documented, despite the fact that in some respects she could be considered a feminist icon: an impoverished-orphan-turned-female-business-mogul who redefined the attitudes of her generation and those to follow. Her self-created persona, aesthetics, and empire were premised on the defiance of the rigid social constructs of her youth. She could hardly be considered a creature of demure Victorian subservience.

Whatever her reasons for declining to categorize herself as a feminist, her career provides much inspiration for ambitious women everywhere. That her successor chooses to mock a demographic of Chanel’s consumers (not all of whom are buying his apparel with their husbands’ Mastercards), and propagate this erroneous impression of feminism, is unfortunate and disenchanting.

This “ugly feminist” would expect more from the ambassador of a brand supposedly devoted to elegance.

Sourse: huffingtonpost.com

Photographer: Karl Lagerfeld

Director: Johan Renck

Models: Eva Herzigova, Brad Kroenig

The opening party for Karl Lagerfeld’s photography exhibition in the Postfuhramt in Berlin-Mitte. The celebrities were out and about, including the mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit.