11/07/2008

Film Mobile Art #3 New York

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2008/9 Fall-Winter

READY-TO-WEAR CAMPAIGN

HARLEM SHUFFLE

For this collection's campaign, Claudia Schiffer gave up her legendary blonde hairstyle: Karl Lagerfeld was not afraid to turn
her into a modern Louise Brooks, short black hair, snow white skin, lace stockings covering long legs, and a delicate 20's
look. The photo shoot took place in an authentic Harlem brownstone, still full of the historical atmosphere of the neighborhood,
formerly dedicated to jazz music. [ More ]
05/14 - 05/25/2008

CHANEL IN CANNES

BACKSTAGE AT THE FITTING ROOM

Lily Allen with her pink Chanel sunglasses [ More ]
MÃƒâ€°TIERS D'ART 2008

THE FEATHER PLASTRON

PARIS-LONDRES COLLECTION

Photo by Karl Lagerfeld

For the Paris-Londres collection, the house of Desrues made
this spectacular golden feathers plastron. It is with his unique
Métiers d'Art collection that Karl Lagerfeld is able to preserve
and promote traditional know-how, using these increasingly
rare artisans to enhance his creation. Behind the scenes of a
meticulous project which takes over ten days of labor and
results in a capelet of feathers delicately articulating along
a woman's décolleté. [ More ]

Six different types of feathers are created and each is hand-engrave
A rubber mold is created for each of the six types of feather clusters.
Hot wax is poured into each mold and the resulting wax
feathers are positioned on a tree.
Molten bronze is poured into the plaster tree mold. The plaster is broken and the bronze feathers are detached from the tree.
- Irregularities are removed from each cluster.
- Rings are soldered onto each cluster of feathers.
The rings are then interconnected and the plastron is treated
using gold.