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Karl Lagerfeld Count Anton Wolfgang during his wedding waltz on 12th December 1987 with Countess Mary, dazzlingly beautiful in the dress created by Karl Lagerfeld.
Karl Lagerfeld, design sketch for Countess Mary von FaberCastell’s wedding dress, no date, felt pen and Polychromos pastel, 29.5 × 20.9 cm (Faber-Castell collection, © Karl Lagerfeld)
“Fashion begins on paper; and it survives on paper”: this is how Karl Lagerfeld (*1938), one of the most creative German minds of all time, describes his appreciation of fashion illustration. When developing his haute couture and prêt-à-porter collections, Lagerfeld – who sees himself as an illustrator, rather than a designer – does not consider the material to be the starting point. Rather, pen and paper form the source of his inspiration. His drawings act as both working sketches and direct instructions. In 1987, a very special gift marked the wedding of Count Anton Wolfgang von FaberCastell and Mary Hogan, Marketing Director of Chanel from New York: The fashion house Chanel put its chief designer, Karl Lagerfeld, in charge of creating the wedding dress. The dress perfectly complemented the setting of the event, the Faber-Castell Castle in Stein: the fashion designer drew his inspiration from details of the castle, which he had previously come across in the architecture magazine “World of Interiors”. When designing the wedding dress, Karl Lagerfeld drew inspiration from the ceiling mosaic in the ladies’ bathroom at the Faber-Castell Castle.
250 Years of Faber-Castell
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