Anna Wintour Breaks Down 13 Karl Lagerfeld Chanel Looks | Life in Looks | Vogue

hello I'm Anna and this morning we're going to look at some of Carl lagerfeld's most iconic looks for Chanel throughout the pages and history of Vogue [Music] this amazing Trump Loy dress is from Carl's very first collection for Chanel where there was a lot of apprehension would he throw out all the codes of Coco would he destroy the most beloved French designer but of course he didn't he took all that she did and sort of had some fun with it and pushed it and I think that this dress really epitomizes that so this very joyful picture of Naomi Campbell was part of a shoot that we did for her very first American Vogue cover I love the combination of the traditional Chanel pearls with leggings I think this is probably one of the most celebrated images that American Vogue has ever published and this collection is what Carl called City ballerina and I think what we called Madonna meets Brando and it was this incredible collection that was really this mixture of ball gowns and leather jackets paired with all the accessories that Chanel is known for pearls the gold jewelry the bags this is March 1994 in our post-grunge moment and when you would visit Carl in the studio he would always have a huge array of colorful pencils and he told me at the time that this collection was based on the colors of those pencils and of course it was at a moment where everything went super short super to the body and it was a dramatic reaction against the layers of grunge and the bodies all being covered up well this is part of a world famous shoot that I believe our features director at the time James Truman suggested and Vogue decided to bring Sean Combs to Paris to the Couture and photograph him with Kate Moss and this particular picture was photographed in a paint Studio it's one of the few pictures which actually shows Kate alone because the dress itself was so perfect this is another moment when Vogue invites an outsider in a way to the Paris Couture because this was at a moment when celebrities were really not in attendance in the front row Renee Zellweger had not yet reached her enormous Heights of Fame she won a Golden Globe that year for Nurse Betty and Bridget Jones the first one was about to come out but we flew her immediately from receiving that Golden Globe right to the Salas of Paris and this particular picture was taken at the Belmont show and she is wearing a Chanel jacket and the reason we decided to put those two together is that Carl and this is not so known about his history was also for a brief moment a designer at Belmar and in fact when Olivier rastang joined balma I remember Carl saying to him oh we are both Bellman boys so this is another moment when Rogue brought a famous character to Paris and shot them there and this was with Annie and I believe that Grace was the editor and of course this is Ben Stiller at the time of Zoolander and Stella tenant wearing Chanel I believe that Annie's thinking for this particular image was a sort of homage to funny face and also to Elliot Owen the shoot of Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge inspired dresses created for Vogue by a number of different designers this one obviously is Carl for Chanel came out of a disaster we were planning to shoot and had actually sent Annie all the way I believe to Australia to photograph her on the set of Moulin Rouge the great movie directed by the amazing baslerman and we came away from Australia with a fantastic shoe and I remember being in Paris I believe in in October when the phone rang it was pre-sell phones and I had an extremely apprehensive bass lemon on the phone telling me that the film was delayed we went ahead and we ran the story anyway as a preview but then when the movie came out we loved it so much we wanted to do something that was an homage to Moulin Rouge and to the looks at Catherine Martin baz's wife had designed so we asked a group of designers to create Moulin Rouge inspired dresses because of Moulin Rouge Chanel became very aware of what a brilliant filmmaker baz was and they asked him to make a small film of Nicole wearing the most beautiful dress that Carl designed and even though it was a small film baz and Carl and Nicole treated it like it was an epic five-hour film and there were many fittings many meetings many script discussions and the opening itself was like the opening of Lawrence of Arabia or with Irish there was a history between grace and Annie and all of us at Vogue about creating magical portfolios for our holiday issues and I think that this one Alice in Wonderland is probably the most magical and again it was the remarkable combination of Grace and Annie working together and they decided to ask a number of designers to create looks around the idea of Alice in Wonderland and Grayson her great wisdom decided they all should be blue then she and Annie cooked up the idea that all the designers would play different characters for Alice in Wonderland so laquan came Gautier Came John Galliano came the one that okay refusing was Carl Annie and grace are two ladies who never give up so in the end he got so fed up with all their phone calls he said okay I'll come at five o'clock in the morning thinking that they wouldn't be there but actually they just stayed there all night and waited for him to come he was shot alone Natalia was added afterwards because they were so terrified that the pig would disturb the maestro this is another example of Annie and Gracie's brilliant storytelling it was based on Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette with Kirsten Dunst playing the queen and we asked a number of great French couturiers to make dresses Carl was someone who was deeply immersed in the 18th century it was his inspiration for so many different collections it's how he lived it was his backbone and this dress is photographed at Versailles on Kirsten and they created all these amazing images in the dungeons in the ballrooms looking out onto the garden and recreating what Sophia was making in her film so this is one of Irving Penn's great portraits very Charles Dickens I think and it's feeling and makeup and that atmosphere and Carl was someone who was almost impossible to give a gift to but he did truly admire the work of Irving pan and held him in the highest regard so I was able to persuade Irving to give this print to Carl as a present and I was so proud when I saw it hanging in the studio for everybody to see because that truly meant because that's where Carl spent all his time was in the studio that Carl loved it and I think he loved the light he loved the mystery it's so evocative and strong but a little bit sad I think at the same time so this shoot was a Tim Walker Grace Coddington Extravaganza it was to celebrate or recognize the very sad closing of the Ritz hotel for many many years of renovation we photographed the work there we photographed the flowers we photographed all the rooms and we photographed Kate who was I think a very very faithful customer of the Ritz here in this extraordinary room after obviously an exhausting day of shopping at Chanel and I think this was particularly moving because Carl himself spent so much time at the Reds he had many shows there many dinners many celebrations and I think the Ritz was the second home in a way for him so this last image is a deeply moving picture of Carl towards the end of his life and obviously he's sitting working as he did every day at this desk that was so full and covered with every possible sort of book things to draw with they're probably a million iPads in there too it was just like you think he was gonna disappear under it and in fact years and years ago I was at his house one night for dinner and we were in the dining room and we heard this incredible thud we went next door and we saw that the desk that he had there which looked exactly like this had collapsed and the ceiling had fallen in under the weight of everything that Carl had on his beloved desk to me this shows the car that we know the best yes he was glamorous but when you go back to the quintessential call he would always say I'm just a dressmaker and here he is creating [Music] thank you so much for joining us as we remember some of Carl's most iconic images in Vogue and looking forward to seeing you on May 1st to celebrate him again [Music] foreign

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Length: 10min 41sec (641 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 28 2023

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