| FEATURED TITLEKarl Lagerfeld: 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, clad only in a Chanel cardigan and a pair of shoes. 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.
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LIST PRICE: U.S. $50.00
ISBN: 9783869300467
FORMAT: Pbk, 11 x 14 in. / 96 pgs / 80 tritone.
PUBLISHER: Steidl
PUBLICATION DATE: 5/31/2010 | Forthcoming
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| FEATURED TITLEKarl Lagerfeld: A Portrait Of Dorian GrayPhotographs by Karl Lagerfeld.
In his youth, Dorian Gray had his portrait painted and, because the painting wonderfully preserved a carefree moment, Gray begged for a trade-off: the painting would age and he himself would remain young and handsome forever. That's exactly what happened until one day, in a rage, he stabbed the canvas and died. What remained was a flawless portrait of youth. Karl Lagerfeld has staged the core of Oscar Wilde's famous novel in his own way. He shows a luxurious Bohemian world as in the freeze-frames of a film. Young people celebrate, paying homage to beautiful bodies and devoting themselves to the moment. Right up until the metamorphosis begins. Then the young man changes into an old man and the pretty woman into her own death mask.
This book tells the story as a film, reflecting a world of fashion and glamour, and suggesting the aesthetics of Caravaggio or the pre-Raphaelites. With this publication, Karl Lagerfeld, one of the great protagonists of the fashion scene, makes his contribution--not entirely irony-free--to the subject of the transitory nature of beauty. | |  |
LIST PRICE: U.S. $55.00
ISBN: 9783865210159
FORMAT: Clothbound, 9.75 x 10.25 in. / 88 pgs / illustrated throughout.
PUBLISHER: Steidl
PUBLICATION DATE: 10/2/2004 | Active
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