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A Celebration of Karl Lagerfeld’s Work in Vogue

  • The Best Looks of Karl Lagerfeld in Vogue
    Photographed by Irving Penn, Vogue, November 2007
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    Karl Lagerfeld’s Best Looks in Vogue

    Caroline Trentini in silver-spangled Chanel Haute Couture.

  • Karl Lagerfeld
    Photographed by Horst P. Horst, Vogue, September 1974
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    Karl Lagerfeld’s Best Looks in Vogue

    “Karl Lagerfeld is a young fashion designer whose special talent is to invoke the mood, the glamour, of the 1920s and ’30s—combining it with the ease and dash of the 1970s,” noted Vogue when, in 1974, his Deco-filled Paris apartment was featured in the magazine. “The clothes he designs for Chloé . . . are enormously pretty, feminine, alluring . . . .”

  • The Best Looks of Karl Lagerfeld in Vogue
    Photographed by Deborah Turbeville, Vogue, January 1975
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    Karl Lagerfeld’s Best Looks in Vogue

    Models at the Hôtel Lutetia in Paris, wearing silk separates by Karl Lagerfeld for Chloé.

  • The Best Looks of Karl Lagerfeld in Vogue
    Photographed by Arthur Elgort, Vogue, 1975
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    Karl Lagerfeld’s Best Looks in Vogue

    Chris Royer in a look by Karl Lagerfeld for Chloé.

  • The Best Looks of Karl Lagerfeld in Vogue
    Photographed by Helmut Newton, Vogue, April 1975
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    Karl Lagerfeld’s Best Looks in Vogue

    Model in a printed dress by Karl Lagerfeld for Chloé.

Christian Lacroix is Laird Borrelli-Persson’s fashion raison d’etre; the way he combined romance and historicism set her on the path she is following today. Borrelli-Persson studied literature at Boston College, spending her junior year abroad at Oxford, where she added some art history. After graduation she moved to New York to intern ... Read More
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