Behind the Scenes Chanel Photoshoot: The Little Black Jacket with Karl Lagerfeld

Chanel revisits their all time classic, The Little Black Jacket. Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfeld produced the ambitious photoshoot, with iconic personalities from the worlds of fashion, music, sports and society wearing the iconic piece of fashion. From Yoko Ono, Tilda Swinton, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kanye West to Claudia Schiffer, Anna Wintour, Natalia Vodianova (one of my favourite models) and many others all participated in this stylish project.

A full website was launched to showcase all the photos of all the people wearing the iconic jacket. Check it out here.

Natalia Vodianova

Behind the scenes Video of the shoot

 'Little Black Jacket: Chanel's Classic Revisited' exhibition and book launched in New York June 7th

 

Photographer Profile ~ Frank Horvat

Frank Horvat is a photographer , born 28 April 1928 in Abbazia ( Italy , now Croatia ) and living in France.
In the '50s and '60s, he acquired an international reputation for his fashion photography, regarded as a kind of renewal. But his work is eclectic, ranging from photojournalism to portraiture and landscape, through street photography and essays on the nature and sculpture. In the 80s, he published a collection of interviews of famous photographers. In the following decade, he became a pioneer of digital photography.

Horvat's career as a photographer was greatly influenced by a meeting with renowed photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson  in 1950. He puchases a  Leica and embarks on a two year long trip throughout  Asia as a freelance photojournalist.  His trip was a great success and the images he took while on the trip wewre included in the exhibition The Family of Man , the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

orvat in 1985, suffering from an ailment of the eyes, temporarily moves from photography to writing, with a collection of interviews with other photographers (including Edward Boubat , Robert Doisneau , Mario Giacomelli , Josef Koudelka , Don McCullin , Sarah Moon , Helmut Newton , Marc Riboud , Jean-Loup Sieff and Joel-Peter Witkin ).

 Coco Chanel, Paris ~ 1958

Frank Horvat,  Jardin des Modes ~ 1964

Anna Karina in fashion shot at Les Halles for Jours de France, 1959