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Architect Porn. If you're in New York City this week or next and feel like looking at a really cool structure, head over to Central Park's Rumsey Playfield where starchitect Zaha Hadid has dreamed up Mobile Art. Inside the building is a project by Karl Lagerfeld - an exhibition of 20 variations on the classic Chanel handbag designed by artists including Yoko Ono. Well, at least the Pritzker Prize-winner Hadid's building is worth seeing. After its New York run, the entire exhibit will be taken down and reassembled in London, then Moscow and Paris. Admission is free...
...What's exciting about these guys is their approach to business. Unlike their iconic predecessors, they take inspiration from their own sartorial needs rather than some idealized fantasy of what they should be wearing. Who better to document this new talent than one of fashion's brightest stars, Karl Lagerfeld? He may spend most of his time sketching women's wear, but when it comes to his own wardrobe, Lagerfeld is a great champion of menswear talent. For our first menswear issue, Lagerfeld turned his lens on Ford. And, as an added bonus, he gave us some expert advice...
...Karl Lagerfeld: In a very simple way: people told me. First they started telling me about the perfume and the sunglasses, and then when the shop opened, I said, "Let's have a look." And it fit! So I thought it was the right moment. I was tired of narrow shoulders and things like this. I suddenly liked this post-Italian updated modern look. Modern because Tom's clothes have nothing to do with the old clothes. It's the idea of them. It shares the mood. But in fact they are made differently, and also, in ready-to-wear...
STEIFF DOES KARL LAGERFELD. WHO'S NEXT...
...very much like her hairdo. I took it as an inspiration. Because, in fact, it was also Brigitte Bardot's hairdo in the late '50s and '60s. And now Amy has made it her own style.' ?Karl Lagerfeld, on Amy Winehouse's style...