CHANEL LITTLE BLACK JACKET

12 Jun 2012
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Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfeld opened their collaborative exhibition called Little Black Jacket: Chanel’s Classic Revisited in New York last week and at the same time launched their book with the same name.

Most of us would rather die than being spotted in the same outfit as someone else but that is what this project is all about. Karl photographed over 100 actors, models and fashionistas wearing the same Chanel LBJ (that’s little black jacket). ‘There are different cuts, shapes and proportions, but the basic thing is timeless,’ Lagerfeld explained. ‘There are not that many designer items you can say that about. We don’t know who did the tank top; we don’t know who did the white shirt, but we know who did the little black jacket.’ Of course everyone he photographed put his or her own spin on this Chanel classic.

Some behind the scenes pictures:

Karl Lagerfeld and Inès de la Fressange

Karl Lagerfeld snapping Elizabeth Olsen with an iPad

Georgia May Jagger getting dolled up

Karl Lagerfeld photographing Daphne Guinness

Karl Lagerfeld and Kirsten Dunst

Tao Okamoto poses for Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld photographing Yoko Ono

Sarah Jessica Parker in hair and make-up

Karl Lagerfeld photographing Sarah Jessica Parker

 

Watch the video of the making of the little black jacket used in all the pictures.

And here are some of the final images selected for the exhibition and the book.

Georgia May Jagger

Linda Evangelista

Kanye West

Stella Tennant

Images from Huffington Post, Fashionologie

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