Lagerfeld Makes Up

I really enjoy fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld’s illustrations. Some of the shapes in these remind me of Toulouse-Lautrec or Degas’ pastels. What is interesting here, however, is that Lagerfeld uses cosmetics in place of traditional drawing materials. In the 2007 documentary Lagerfeld Confidential, there is a fascinating scene where we see him creating a drawing from his imagination. He draws rapidly, speaking quickly as he goes.

I have always found it fascinating to watch artists at work, seeing which colours they choose, the split decisions of a stroke here, a line there, the concentration on their face.

These illustrations of an imaginary masked ball were featured in a 2008 issue of British Vogue. Click on the images for larger versions.