Karl Lagerfeld
Parallel Contrasts

Essen

For over 50 years, Karl Lagerfeld has enjoyed great success as a fashion designer. As Creative Director for CHANEL (since 1981) and FENDI (since 1965) he has become one of the most important players in the international fashion world, but has also gained fame as an astute and sharp-tongued aphorist of the everyday. During this period, Lagerfeld has also worked for other fashion houses and launched sensational collections under his own name. Since 1975, alongside fashion, he has been designing jewellery, furniture, musical instruments, books and toys and, in cooperation with musicians, directors and architects, opera and theatre costumes, stage sets and architecture.

Today, Karl Lagerfeld is equally known internationally as a fashion designer, draftsman and photographer, as well as a designer of books, decorations and interior fittings.

This exhibition on Karl Lagerfeld is more of a snapshot than a retrospective, showing the man’s seemingly boundless creative energy in all its facets: fashion, drawings and photographs, films and books, product design, advertising. For the first time, it provides a panorama of Lagerfeld’s creative cosmos – in keeping with Lagerfeld’s own credo:

“I am fortunate to be able to do in life what interests me most: photography, fashion and books.”
(Karl Lagerfeld)

Karl Lagerfeld, ‚Drawing for the Show at Museum Folkwang‘, 2014, KARL LAGERFELD, „Parallel Contrasts Photography – Books – Fashion, Pencil on Paper, © 2014 Karl Lagerfeld


Karl Lagerfeld, ‚Self-portrait New York‘, 2011, Inkjet on Fabriano, © 2013 Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld

Museum Folkwang

February 15 – March 11, 2014
Museumsplatz 1
45128 Essen
Germany

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