Chanel - The Karl Lagerfeld CampaignsWhen Karl Lagerfeld was appointed to the helm of the then sleepy fashion house in 1983, he set out to radically shake up and update its image not only through bold collections but also, from 1987 onwards, by choosing to shoot the house's campaigns himself (a move that was unprecedented for a fashion designer, long before Hedi Slimane and Tom Ford followed Lagerfeld's example). Conceived in collaboration with Karl Lagerfeld and the house of Chanel,

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catwalk shots and fashion photography pay tribute to one of the world’s most influential fashion houses and the woman behind it

The author describes Chanel's carefully crafted persona and then gradually elucidates each layer of intrigue that surrounded the great fashion designer to reveal the woman behind the enigma

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the iconic fashion empire that she built

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