The Monocle Years (Karl Lagerfeld)
The Monocle Years (Karl Lagerfeld)
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The Monocle Years (Karl Lagerfeld)
Newton's 1973 portrait of Karl Lagerfeld catches the designer in the period before his later uniform became fixed in public memory: the monocle, the gaze, the cultivated self-invention already in place.
Lagerfeld was never only a designer in front of Newton's camera. He was a constructed image, a figure who understood fashion as persona as much as clothing. Newton's portrait isolates that theatrical intelligence without overplaying it: the face, the monocle, the controlled distance between subject and viewer.
Lagerfeld on himself:
I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that.
The photograph belongs to Newton's broader world of fashion figures treated not as celebrities, but as characters who understood the power of being seen.
Collection Note
Every photograph is accompanied by full documentation verifying its authenticity and origin within the authorized Newton Collection.