Karl Lagerfeld & Baptiste Giabiconi | Purple Fashion Mag

Always a man in pursuit of novelty, Karl Lagerfeld has clearly traded longtime boy-toy Brad Kroenig for new muse and victim of fanciful nakedness, Baptiste Giabiconi.  It was only a little over a year ago that Lagerfeld released a book chronicling his five year artistic collaboration with Kroenig… apparently an homage celebrating a bittersweet changing of the guards.  Following a series of prominent editorials (including a cover shoot for Wallpaper, posted earlier, and German Vogue), this recent editorial for Purple Fashion Magazine pays tribute to Helmut Newton’s work on a whirlwind trip from Saint Tropez to Venice and then Paris, complete with heels fit for a queen (of the drag variety, no less).

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