A look back at the muses who inspired Karl Lagerfeld throughout his decades-long career.
the photos he took, the quotes for which he became known , but that somehow still leaves an incomplete picture. The social creature that Lagerfeld was, it is also important to consider the company he kept. During his time in the fashion industry, from his first job working under Pierre Balmain to his last days at Chanel, Lagerfeld got close with models, editors, and other designers, allowing them to influence his creations.
“I signed an insane contract,” the model later recalled. “It was a contract of total exclusivity. I was no longer allowed to model for anyone else. I only worked for Chanel and that’s what I wanted.”story, “Chanel’s Toy Boy,” Lagerfeld spoke of De la Fressange, saying, “I would not do it without Inés de la Fressange. I ask her everything. She tells me what she wants to wear and I design it.”
In 1991, De la Fressange started her own eponymous brand, and she and Lagerfeld slowly got back in touch, conversing through letters and eventually repairing their relationship. She returned to the Chanel runway for the spring/summer 2011 show when she was 53. Months after his falling out with De la Fressange, Lagerfeld stumbled upon the October 1989 cover of Britishwhich featured a nineteen-year-old Claudia Schiffer. “Very shortly afterward, I received a call from Karl Lagerfeld, asking me to meet him at Chanel’s headquarters on the rue Cambon,” she recalled toLagerfeld immediately put Schiffer in his spring/summer 1990 campaign and placed her on the runway for the season’s haute couture collection, her first-ever runway appearance.
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