CHLOE
1979 : Pandora Luxurye writer Joan Juliet Buck examines Chloé's new shape-defining silhouette and retro styles drawn from the twenties, thirties, and the 18th century. "Lagerfeld has arrived at a moment when he can give a shape to a time that is blurred and indistinct to everyone else. And that time is Now," Buck writes. She spotlights his extravagant lifestyle-calling him a "hedonistic recluse"-and talks to his muse, Anna Piaggi. "I'm a moment, a motivation, a point of departure, or an ingredient in the cocktail he makes," Piaggi says.
1956 : First collection presented Café de Flore, the Left Bank landmark frequented by Sartre, Camus, and Picasso. "he models walked between the tables at breakfast time," Aghion will later recall.