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It’s been over three years since Karl Lagerfeld’s death and his legacy is being remembered by different creatives within various industries to honor the late designer. There will be an upcoming feature film, a documentary, an exhibition, and now, two new books, all on the Chanel creative director.
It was recently announced that the 2023 Met Gala theme and exhibition will center around Lagerfeld’s career and news that Jared Leto will play the designer in an upcoming movie also just came out. The latest update is that author William Middleton will release a book next year entitled, Paradise Now: The Extraordinary Life of Karl Lagerfeld, and next month, British fashion photographer Robert Fairer will unveil his tome Karl Lagerfeld Unseen: The Chanel Years.
Available Nov. 8, Karl Lagerfeld Unseen: The Chanel Years encompasses a visual retrospective of Lagerfeld’s time at the Parisian fashion house Chanel from the mid-1990s to 2006. With almost 300 images, the volume provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the fashion-frenzied chaos backstage before Chanel shows. The book features photos of Lagerfeld’s jaw-dropping designs, as well as the designer with Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, and the late Stella Tennant and André Leon Talley.
Fairer has previously published books on John Galliano, Marc Jacobs and Alexander McQueen runway shows, but tells WWD that Chanel shows were, “on another level.”
The book features essays by journalists Natasha Fraser, Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis, and Sally Singer, with a foreword from Lady Amanda Harlech.
Lagerfeld’s story will be making it to the small screen next year as well, with a four-part documentary series dubbed Lagerfeld Ambitions on French television station Canal+.
The fashion wunderkind kicked off his career in 1954, winning the esteemed Woolmark Prize in a tie with fellow up-and-comer Yves Saint Laurent. Lagerfeld went on to become Pierre Balmain’s assistant just a year later, before taking the reins as art director at Parisian fashion house Jean Patou. Later, Lagerfeld would go on to helm Chloé, take on a life-long partnership at Italian fashion house Fendi in 1965, before eventually becoming the chief artistic director at Chanel.
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