Karl Lagerfeld: Off the Record (Designvisionen.) - Hardcover

This is Karl Lagerfeld's own album of the photographic stories and sequences that he has created over the last eight years. Shot in black and white, often with models and costumes, his photographs are at once stylish, sensuous, literate, and full of fantasy and desire. Here are Lagerfeld's baroque photographic stagings of "Dangerous Liasons" and "Afternoon of a Faun"; other stories show actress Emma Thompson performing a homage to the choreographer Mary Wigman, and Helena Bonham-Carter playing Cinderella, and the Duchess of Windsor playing out the public drama of her private life. Lagerfeld's most ambitious project may be "NIX", his cinematic novel-in-pictures starring Claudia Schiffer. "NIX" tells the story of Hans and Greta's trip to Berlin as an allegory of German culture. Lagerfeld's eye also emcompasses the beauty of Paris, including a series of pictures of his former homes - a short and most personal autobiography in pictures.