![]() ![]() They remained in contact until Lagerfeld’s death in 2019. ![]() ![]() It was, however, the beginning of a long-and long-distance-friendship between the pair, even if their only public collaboration came in 1999, after Lagerfeld photographed the Conference Pavilion, Ando’s first commission outside of Japan, on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, and published a small book with Steidl documenting the images. Lagerfeld dreamt that the home would be built in the French resort city of Biarritz, one of his favorite escapes, but after he was denied permission to develop the land he’d hoped to build it on, the project never came to fruition. It was exactly the kind of contradiction that is explored throughout the exhibition, with its many contrasting lines-of the feminine and masculine, the romantic and military, and the historical and futuristic, to name just a few. “But I soon came to abandon my doubts as we delved deeper into conversations about our professions.” Lagerfeld went on to explain that his fascination with the world of architecture was rooted in the contrast between its permanence and what he considered the ephemerality of his own endeavors in fashion. “Upon arrival, I felt an apparent dissonance between my sensibilities in concrete architecture and Lagerfeld’s taste,” Ando remembers in the exhibition catalog. Not long after, Ando found himself in Paris and he dutifully made the pilgrimage to Lagerfeld’s mansion in the heart of the city. ![]()
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