The Little Black Jacket.....

Icons Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfeld have come together to create a wonderful book showcasing one star (the little black Chanel jacket) and many co-stars. Shot in Cannes, the South of France, New York, and in Karl's Lagerfeld's Paris studio.... The digital exhibition encompasses all aspects of contemporary culture and features over a hundred celebrities, artists, singers, and models like Daphne Guinness, Anna Wintour, Baptiste Giabiconi, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Georgia May Jagger all photographed by Lagerfeld and styled by Roitfeld.

The Beauty of Violence....

The Beauty of Violence is Karl Lagerfeld’s portrait of his newest muse, the darkly handsome Italian fashion model Baptiste Giabiconi, whom Lagerfeld first spotted in French Vogue. For Lagerfeld’s lens, Giabiconi enacts an erotic seizure in myriad facial and corporeal expressions, and in various degrees of clothing. Well chosen as a portrait subject, Giabiconi is a theatrical chameleon: he confronts the camera with a provocative, sultry stare, or withdraws from it into a state of feigned self-absorption. Lagerfeld loves to engage such seductive subjects and to capture their bodily rhetoric of sexual aggression: The Beauty of Violence is the latest chapter in his love affair with the many incarnations of male Eros.