Chrome hearts6/11/2023 Lagerfeld owned several, and he wore at least one of them, with a diamond-studded clasp, often. Richard designed the chains for the backstage passes to a Rolling Stones tour - they’re fancy lanyards, basically. On his chest: a thatch of chains that must have been among his favourite Chrome Hearts pieces. The photograph shows the designer on a rooftop, leaning against a planter, a glass of diet soda in one fingerless-gloved hand. When Laurie Lynn showed up, Lagerfeld was wearing his usual assemblage of sterling silver. Lagerfeld almost never posed for other photographers. In 2007, Lagerfeld was in New York to photograph a Chanel campaign, and he invited Laurie Lynn (who lensed Chrome Hearts campaigns) to take his portrait. “This kind of big succession can take 10 years.”Īmidst the craziness of preparing for the Met Gala, Laurie Lynn is still finding moments to remember Lagerfeld. “The situation left at the end was not very tidy,” said Lagerfeld’s lawyer Céline Degoulet, according to WWD. The museum purchased a pair of Chrome Hearts sunglasses in the show from Sotheby's. I don't know where it went.” Several pieces of Chrome Hearts jewellery are included in the Met Costume Institute’s Karl Lagerfeld exhibition, but they were lent by the Starks rather than by Lagerfeld's estate. ![]() But after attempting to work out a deal with Lagerfeld’s lawyers, the collection simply “disappeared. After Lagerfeld’s death, Laurie Lynn “tried to buy back everything” she says. The Starks have been trying to track down the rest. When Sotheby’s auctioned off thousands of pieces of his art, furniture, and clothing in 2021, only a few pieces of Chrome Hearts came up (including a sterling silver pencil sharpener and an ebony wood toilet plunger the latter sold for 1,512 euros). Like the rest of Lagerfeld’s fortune, the whereabouts of his Chrome Hearts collection is currently unknown. Lagerfeld in 2004 YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/Getty Images Whatever he had, the value of his Chrome Hearts gear likely reached into the millions of dollars. A 2007 New Yorker story that described the contents of one of his closets mentioned a tray that contained “tangles of Chrome Hearts necklaces, rings, buckles, clasps, pins, brooches.” Laurie Lynn recalls seeing tables filled with Chrome Hearts at a different property, Lagerfeld’s townhouse on the Quai Voltaire in Paris. Various hints at the size of Lagerfeld’s Chrome Hearts collection have popped up over the years, but because he bought so many gifts, not even the Starks know how much he owned at the time of his death. In return, Chrome Hearts made Lagerfeld the sterling silver tie clips and collar stays and lapel pins he asked for. “I have one of them, thank God,” says Laurie Lynn. It was one of the first Chrome Hearts collaborations. They made an edition of 10 quilted purses, festooned with Chrome Hearts hardware, which were sold at the groundbreaking Parisian boutique Colette. In 2011, Lagerfeld invited the Starks to collaborate with Chanel on a small line of bags. “Christmas, Easter, holiday, Passover, whatever he had to get them a gift for.” He would always also purchase the same piece for himself, says Stark. “He would buy all his friends stuff,” Stark says. He lavished his friends with Chrome Hearts, too. In 2007, in an interview with Richard and Laurie Lynn for an edition of a magazine Chrome Hearts distributed in Japan, Lagerfeld estimated that he had 60 different Chrome Hearts rings. He commissioned custom Chrome Hearts furniture by the tons for his homes, and purchased dozens upon dozens of rings and cuffs and necklaces. ![]() Once Lagerfeld began buying Chrome Hearts, he never stopped. “What I like about collecting is to create a mood, to put things together, then. “I like to collect things I don’t like to own them,” Lagerfeld told Vogue in 2004. When he tired of the colourful modern Italian movement, it all went under the hammer. In the 1980s, for example, Lagerfeld furnished an apartment in Monte Carlo entirely with masterpieces of the Memphis design movement. An insatiable collector of art, design, artefacts, books, and clothing, he was as quick to get rid of things as he was to acquire them. Lagerfeld eventually began shopping, first for furniture, and then jewellery and accessories.
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