At the end of January 1983, the highlight of the week of the Spring-Summer collections in Paris Couture was the Karl Lagerfeld debut show for Chanel. Since the death of its founder 12 years before, the Fashion House of the Rue Cambon had been without artistic direction. The program concluded with a round of applause, marking the beginning of an adventure that would cover almost four decades. The 49 -year -old German cautected a sensation with his black and black silhouettes, an expression of strict austerity.
But Lagerfeld himself (who died in 2019) lived a much less monastic life and much more Monegasca. Since 1981, Lagerfelt had not been living in France, but in the Soloado and Tax Principality with taxes. His apartment, perched at a high height of 27 floors called Le Roccabella, was full of surprising colors and shapes: tables and chairs that looked like construction toys for children, Judo Tatami instead of a conventional living room, an enlightened vanity of phrases and dressing rooms of deconstructed books.
These pieces were designed by Ettore Sottsass, Michele de Lucchi, Matteo Thun and Marco Zanini. All members of a movement that captivate in Milan: Memphis. In 1981, led by Sottsass, they formed a cheerful current that adopted the form of the function and eccentricity about re -entry. His opening exhibition, Hero in the ARC’74 gallery in Milan, reached the headlines, thought that sales did not increase. The fashion editor, Anna Piaggi, brought her friend Karl to the show, who, delighted from him, bought everything. That same year, a socialist president was elected in France, and Lagrefeld had just acquired his Monaco apartment, being close to the Principesca family, the special princess Caroline. The decoration was perfect.
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