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A special “style lounge” will be opened at this year’s Venice Film Festival to showcase short films made by fashion designers and design houses.
The films to be featured include Designer-turned-director Tom Ford’s very first movie A Single Man.
Tom Ford’s movie, starring Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode and Nicholas Hoult, will premiere on Sept. 11, closing the festival as the final film.
The other fashion films to be screened at the Venice Film Festival include Edoardo Winspeare’s Les Noces de Papier for Louis Vuitton; La Scarpa by Andrea Rovetta for Ferragamo, and Paris-Moscou by Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel.

Though Tom Ford’s first feature film will be screened in the main competition, the others won’t be entered for the festival’s main The Golden Lion Award prize. They will be shown alongside the film industry’s most promising Oscar contenders.

Tom Ford’s film is set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the peak of the Cuban missile crisis, and tells the tale of a British professor struggling after the death of his longtime partner. According to Ford’s production company, “The story is a romantic tale of love interrupted, the isolation that is an inherent part of the human condition, and ultimately the importance of the seemingly smaller moments in life.”

source: www.sceneadvisor.com

Le Petit Larousse Illustré is THE encyclopaedic reference for the entire family since 1905. Bringing together common nouns and proper names in one volume, it also is the most complete! The amazing 2009 Christmas edition has been designed by Karl Lagerfeld himself. The perfect gift!

When famous toy brand, Margarete Steiff GmbH, decided to produce the first ever “couture” teddy bear, they chose the master of today’s luxury: Karl Lagerfeld.
A unique and unusual collaboration showing how Lagerfeld always is on the avant-garde. Steiff innovates and brings the first teddy bear made for older kids. Source: Colette

Isla Moda, an island dedicated to fashion and luxury will soon see the day in Dubai. Designer exclusive collaborations will blossom there… We hear that Karl Lagerfeld has signed an exclusive deal with Dubai Infinity Holdings (DIH).
At a time when Russian billionaires are desperately seeking a bit of exclusivity, Isla Moda is already the answer to the expectations of high-end customers. The island has the ambition to become the ultimate reference for design and luxury.

Karl Lagerfeld is appearing as the poster boy for the latest campaign of La Securite Routiere, the French Road Safety organization. Words of wisdom by Karl: “It’s yellow, it’s ugly, it doesn’t go with anything, but it can save your life”, referring to the reflective jacket he wears on the picture. Hilarious but true! Maybe Karl will rethink the jacket and make it look to his taste, then for the masses?

This Summer is starting with and exhibition of Karl Lagerfeld’s pictures of France’s most-visited landmark : the chateau de Versailles and its famous gardens.
Entitled “Versailles, à l’ombre du soleil” (Versailles in the shadow of the sun) the show consists in a selection of 40 photographs which depict the palace and gardens of Versailles as a “panopticum” of light and darkness.
The opening took place on June 9 with guests such as Caroline de Monaco in Haute Couture Vintage Chanel, Elsa Zylberstein, Marie-Josée Croze, Elodie Navarre, Joana Preiss, Audrey Marnay and Gaia Repossi.

I just discover this book about Brad Kroenig, of course I saw him during few ads. I don t unsterstand, why him.

In Metamorphoses of an American, Karl Lagerfeld traces the physical and emotional development of Brad Kroenig, once an unknown but now the world’s most sought-after male model. Lagerfeld discovered Kroenig in 2003, took his first photographs of him in Biarritz, and since then has observed him through his photographic lens, month by month. In hundreds of pictures Lagerfeld explores Kroenig’s evolution from a young “All American Boy” into a professional model conscious of the subtleties of facial and corporeal expression. These photographs are however not simply documentation; rather Lagerfeld and Kroenig work together to create a new persona, one which Kroenig expresses without losing a sense of his own self.

Lagerfeld selects a spectrum of literary and cultural references for Kroenig to interpret: we see him as James Dean, as Rudolph Valentino, as a Gatsby-like figure from F. Scott Fitzgerald, and as Lieutenant Pinkerton from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly. Yet throughout these transformations, there is never the sense that Kroenig is merely acting; instead he presents newly discovered aspects of himself through the guises of other characters. Metamorphoses of an American contains photography made both within and beyond the fashion world. However

regardless of the purpose of Lagerfeld’s images, each one evidences rigorous formal principles grounded in an appreciation of early twentieth-century photographer such as Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen. Indeed Lagerfeld refers to his work more as “pictures” than photographs, conveying the graphic processes of construction and design from which each image emerges.

After many other ventures including a VIP appearance in a videogame and tres chic teddy bear, we are happy to announce the launch of Karl Lagerfeld’s new website with links to visuals of his latest collections as well as a comprehensive list of his stockists.

www.karllagerfeld.com

German toy manufacturer Steiff announced that it will produce a Karl Lagerfeld teddy bear – meaning that the fuzzy toy will be clad in a sharp suit, dark sunglasses and high-collars in a very Karl fashion. Waiting for the first pictures!

Spectacular Chanel show during the Couture in Paris. The runway was organised around a giant replica of the iconic Chanel jacket, made of wood and painted to look like concrete.