Before his death in February, Karl Lagerfeld had been working on his biggest beauty collaboration yet: The Karl Lagerfeld x L’Oréal Paris collection, which made its European debut during Paris Fashion Week and will arrive in the U.S. in early 2020.
, it was never just about the clothes. A designer, photographer, and illustrator, the German-born visionary had his hand in every aspect of what came down the runway. And while he was a man of many passions, makeup was an important part of his creative identity. In fact, it was an indispensable tool that even showed up on his drawing boards.
“Over the past three decades, whenever Karl sketched for a fashion show, or even more technically for the designers in his workshop, he used eyeshadow,” explains Caroline Lebar, head of image and communication for Karl Lagerfeld, inside the brand’s atelier on the Rue Saint-Guillaume in Paris. “He did it because he believed [eyeshadows] had the maximum [possibilities for] color.
From graphic negative-space liner to saturated swathes of eyeshadow and bright crimson stamps of lipstick, Chanel could always be relied upon for a beauty inspiration. So it was only natural that Lagerfeld, who also happened to be a veritable master of collaborations, would have had his hand in the makeup game. In 2011, the Karl Lagerfeld fashion house released a capsule range with Sephora, and in 2018, it joined forces with beauty company ModelCo for another limited-edition collection.
, Doutzen Kroes, and Soo Joo Park, among other fierce women, and highlights many of Lagerfeld’s most quotable bons mots. “When I think of Karl, I think of one of his Karlisms—‘Elegance is an attitude’—because he always wanted his woman to be and feel beautiful, but with a twist,” explains Garland, who gave Mirren a glossy red lip and Park a bold reverse cat eye as they channeled Lagerfeld with powdery coifs and leather gloves for the kitschy campaign.
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