Karl Lagerfeld, the Renaissance man (finale)

It is interesting to know, since 1970 Karl Lagerfeld has worked as a costume designer for some theatrical productions. He has worked with Luca Ronconi and Jurgen Flimm. He has worked for La Scala in Milan, Burgtheater in Vienna, and for Salzburg Festival.

He is as good with photography as he is with everything else, though his entry into the world of photography was out of his frustration with professional photographers, during his campaign shoots.

About photography he says:“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”

Karls photography:

“I do my job like I breathe-so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.” KL

Karl the man:

“I’m very down to earth, I’m just not from this earth.” KL

“There is no Chanel collection without black. It will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes.” KL

Chanel, Paris 2011 Fall/Winter collection

“One is never overdressed in a little black dress.” KL

“I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the carnival of Venice lasts all year long.” KL

Photo credits: google, fliker etc

abandoned america

abandoned barn, Dublin, Ohio
(click to embiggen)

There is something very nostalgic, mysteriously magical, so bleakly wondrous that draws me to abandoned places: farm houses, out-buildings, barns.  I love feeling the leftover energies, the stories left behind in the rubble.  It's like an archaeological dig, the forgotten objects buried in time and dust, above ground. They are a lovely quintessential American art form in themselves. Even though long empty, this particular barn smells of cows, oil and old wood; its history is intensely palpable.

As my Facebook friends know, I've been posting a series of photos titled "Abandoned America", most of which I took in and around my neck of the woods, Central Ohio.  Hope you enjoy these places, truly majestic in their own right, as much as I did.  Stay tuned for more images in the coming weeks.

Another night, I dreamed 

I saw my fathersweeping 

out the barn floor clean, 

and would not suffer the wheat 

to be broughtin the barn. 

He appeared to me to be in anger.

Joanna Southcott 

Cloud 9 Status: Whisky Tango Foxtrot (WTF): Banned Skittles Commercial *NSFW*

DISCLAIMER ALTHOUGH THIS IS ONLY A SIMULATION THE MESSAGE IS GLARING SO PLEASE DON'T ZAB JUDAH ME BRO, IF YOU GET FIRED FOR WATCHING AT WORK!! 

O_____________X this video did me in from the second the director screamed QUIET ON SET, ACTION!! I mean the innuendos here are so blazing can we just call a spade a shovel? I mean damn the people (FCC) who stuck Janet Jackson for her paper and let Justin Timberlake walk away SCOTT FREE (who the hell is Scott and when did he get FREE?) would be appalled at the lewd and lascivious nature of this video.  The end though sent me up yonder, I am sure there are some pervs in Japan that are thoroughly enjoying the nature of the end...


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Karl Lagerfeld, the Renaissance Man (continues)

with 5 Euro coin he designed
on Coco's 125th anniversary

“I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I’m not interested in. So, as far as I am concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don’t know. When I know, I don’t care because I knew how it was.” KL

Karl at home:

“We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst-you need them both.” KL

“Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.” KL

“With every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.” KL

“Change is the healthiest way to survive.” KL

“Apparently, I am very scary. But if you get to know me, you see I am very nice. Happily, I don’t look like I am.” KL

Monaco, La Vigie built by Sir William Ingram in 1902,
owned by Karl till 1997, for 10 years

La Vigie

Six bedroom, 1840s house on an island in
lake Champlain, Vermont

At Vermont house

“Owning things victimizes you and imprisons you.” KL

Cuckoo clock in Paris apartment

Karl and his sketches:

“There is no Chanel collection without black. It will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes.” KL

Coco Chanel by Karl Lagerfeld

Picture credits: Google etc.