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Karl Lagerfeld is many things: a German living in France, a white-headed wonder, a style icon, obsessive curator & head designer of Chanel, Fendi & his own line.  The movie Lagerfeld Confidential, released in 2007, followed the prolific designer & gave an insight into his daily life, & in 2006 he starred in Signé Chanel, a reality show about the creation of one of his collections.  He is also a photographer, illustrator & world traveler.  But it’s as if the man never sleeps, because on Tuesday May 11th of 2010, Karl Lagerfeld makes his directorial debut!

Remember Now is a short film which ties in to Chanel’s Cruise collection, & will be shown as part of the presentation.  It looks to be a veritable who’s who of top models, & features Freja Beha, Magdalena Frackowiak, Baptiste Giabiconi (Lagerfeld’s muse), Karolina Kurkova, Abbey Lee & Heidi Mount, among others.  The trailer is fabulous, frothy & over-the-top — there are scantily-clad beautiful people, sequins, feathers & glimpses of life in St. Tropez.  Pure confectionery for the cerebrum.

That’s not the only interesting thing about the Cruise show.  It was recently confirmed that Georgia May Jagger & Crystal Renn have been booked to walk it!  These two women have been at the forefront of the push for more inclusion of plus-sized models, & the fact that they will be walking in a Chanel show gives us serious hope that this marks a change for the better.  Lagerfeld, who once lost almost 100lbs over 13 months, has often intimated that his designs were only for the few people who could fit into them, so you have to wonder when he changed his mind, & why!

The Cruise collection will stream live online at http://www.chanel-news.com on Tuesday at 7.30pm CET, but for those of you who want a glimpse behind the scenes of Remember Now, here are http://www.chanel-news.com/en/by-karl/film-karl-lagerfeld-pascal-greggor Pascal Greggory’s photographs of the shoot.

Words by Gala Darling with photos courtesy of Chanel

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