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===Other media=== Lagerfeld took up photography in 1987<ref name="Barchfield">{{cite news |last=Barchfield |first=Jenny |date=10 September 2015 |title=Karl Lagerfeld's photos on display in Paris |url=https://www.houmatoday.com/story/news/2010/09/15/karl-lagerfelds-photos-on-display-in-paris/26936273007/ |access-date=9 January 2024 |agency=Associated Press}}</ref> after being frustrated with images done for Chanel press kits. Chanel's then-image director, [[Éric Pfrunder]], encouraged Lagerfeld to redo them himself,<ref name="Diderich2019WWD">{{cite news |last=Diderich |first=Joelle |date=5 March 2019 |title=Through Lagerfeld's Lens |url=https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-features/karl-lagerfeld-career-as-photographer-1203064415/ |access-date=9 January 2024 |work=[[Women's Wear Daily]]}}</ref> and photography became one of the passions of Lagerfeld's life outside of design.<ref name="Binlot">{{cite news |last=Binlot |first=Ann |date=5 March 2019 |title=Remembering the photography of 'Renaissance man' Karl Lagerfeld |url=https://www.documentjournal.com/2019/03/chanel-karl-lagerfeld-photographs/ |access-date=9 January 2024 |work=[[Document Journal]] |quote=One of his passions outside of design was photography; Lagerfeld would often shoot Chanel's campaigns, and he also photographed editorials for magazines like V, Numéro, and Harper's Bazaar.}}</ref> He went on to shoot commercial fashion campaigns,<ref name="Barchfield" /> editorial shots for magazines like ''Harper's Bazaar'',<ref name="Algoo">{{cite magazine |last1=Alexis Fisher |first1=Lauren |last2=Algoo |first2=Jennifer |date=10 February 2019 |title=Karl Lagerfeld's Greatest Fashion Moments in Harper's BAZAAR |url=https://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/photography/g26417163/karl-lagerfeld-photography-harpers-bazaar/ |access-date=9 January 2024 |magazine=Harper's Bazaar}}</ref> as well as architectural and landscape work.<ref name="Martinique">{{cite news |last=Martinique |first=Elena |date=22 February 2019 |title=An Homage to Karl Lagerfeld and His Photography |url=https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/karl-lagerfeld-photography |access-date=9 January 2024 |work=Widewalls}}</ref> "I'm an illustrator with a camera", Lagerfeld told ''[[Women's Wear Daily]]'' at a 2010 exhibition of his work at the [[Maison européenne de la photographie]].<ref name="Socha2010WWD">{{cite news |last=Socha |first=Miles |date=15 September 2010 |title=Karl Lagerfeld: Survey of the Kaiser's Work Opens Today |url=https://wwd.com/feature/karl-lagerfeld-survey-of-the-kaisers-work-opens-today-3272166-1266298/ |access-date=9 January 2024 |work=[[Women's Wear Daily]]}}</ref> In 1994, German publishing house [[Steidl]] published ''Off the Record'', a collection of Lagerfeld's photography.<ref name=KaiserQuote>{{Cite book| publisher = Abrams| isbn = 978-1-64700-430-9| last = Kaiser| first = Alfons| title = Karl Lagerfeld: A Life in Fashion| date = 8 February 2022 |quote=As a screen-printing specialist with his own in-house printing department, Steidl is an expert in different varieties of paper and printing techniques. He and Lagerfeld met in the early 1990s. The designer once referred to him as 'the best printer in the world,' and was inspired to come up with a lot of new ideas through working with him. Lagerfeld published dozens of photography collections with the publishing house, starting in Off the Record in 1994. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vdpNEAAAQBAJ&dq=In+1994,+Steidl+published+Off+the+Record,+a+collection+of+Lagerfeld%27s+photography.&pg=PT309}}</ref> The publishing house went on to release dozens of collections of his work,<ref name=KaiserQuote/> including ''The Little Black Jacket'' in 2012, which featured 113 portraits of models and entertainers wearing the book's eponymous article,<ref name=Lynch2012WWD>{{cite news |last=Lynch |first=Matthew |title=Karl Lagerfeld Fetes 'The Little Black Jacket' in New York |work=[[Women's Wear Daily]] |date=7 June 2012 |access-date=9 January 2024 |url=https://wwd.com/feature/karl-lagerfeld-fetes-the-little-black-jacket-chanels-classic-revisited-5950401-622334/}}</ref> and ''Karl Lagerfeld: Casa Malaparte'' in 2015, which documented the [[Casa Malaparte|Italian Modernist architectural monument]].<ref name=Reynolds2015>{{cite news |last=Reynolds |first=Cory |title=Karl Lagerfeld: Casa Malaparte |work=Artbook |date=5 September 2015 |access-date=9 January 2024 |url=https://www.artbook.com/blog-featured-image-casa-malaparte.html}}</ref> Lagerfeld and investments enterprise Dubai Infinity Holdings (DIH) signed a deal to design limited edition homes on the island of [[The World (archipelago)|Isla Moda]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Bumpus |first=Jessica |date=9 July 2008 |title=Lagerfeld's Designer Homes |url=http://www.vogue.co.uk/article/karl-lagerfeld-designs-homes-in-dubai |magazine=[[Vogue (British magazine)|Vogue (UK)]] |access-date=20 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.constructionweekonline.com/article-3345-haute-homes/ |title=Haute homes |author=Arkut, Selin |date=22 July 2008 |work=Construction Week |access-date=20 February 2017}}</ref> A feature-length documentary film on the designer, ''Lagerfeld Confidential'', was made by Rodolphe Marconi in 2007.<ref name=Holden2007>{{cite news |last=Holden |first=Stephen |title=Chanel's Visionary, Holding Forth From His Designer Throne |work=The New York Times |date=24 October 2007 |access-date=15 January 2024 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/movies/24lage.html}}</ref> Later that year, Lagerfeld assumed the role of the host of the fictional radio station K109 in the video game ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'' and its DLCs ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned|The Lost & Damned]]'' and ''[[Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony|The Ballad of Gay Tony]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/04/karl_lagerfeld_becomes_a_video_1.html |title=Karl Lagerfeld Becomes a Video-Game Character |work=New York |date=8 April 2008 |access-date=8 September 2011}}</ref> In 2008, he created a [[teddy bear]] in his likeness that was produced by [[Margarete Steiff GmbH|Steiff]] in an edition of 2,500 that sold for $1,500.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/08/get_your_karl_lagerfeld_teddy.html |newspaper=New York |title=Get Your Karl Lagerfeld Teddy Bear for Just $1,500! |date=22 August 2008}}</ref> and has been immortalized in many forms, which include pins, shirts, dolls, and more. In 2009, Tra Tutti began selling Karl Lagermouse and Karl Lagerfelt, which are mini-Lagerfelds in the forms of mice and [[finger puppet]]s, respectively.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sassybella.com/2010/01/karl-lagerfelt-the-finger-puppet/ |title=Karl LagerFELT the finger puppet |date=26 January 2010 |publisher=Sassybella.com |access-date=24 October 2011}}</ref> That same year, he had a guest voice role in the French animated film ''[[Totally Spies! The Movie]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.premiere.fr/film/Totally-Spies-!-Le-film-1211476/(affichage)/casting |title=Le casting de Totally Spies ! Le film |work=Premiere.fr |access-date=2 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402131825/http://www.premiere.fr/film/Totally-Spies-!-Le-film-1211476/(affichage)/casting |archive-date=2 April 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1996, the Zürich-based [[Galerie Gmurzynska]] began exhibiting Lagerfeld's photography.<ref name=Armstrong>{{cite news |last=Armstrong |first=Annie |title=Galerie Gmurzynska to Mount Karl Lagerfeld Photography Survey in Zurich |work=[[ARTnews]] |date=20 February 2019 |access-date=9 January 2024 |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/karl-lagerfeld-photography-survey-11944/}}</ref> In 1999, Lagerfeld opened 7L, a bookshop in Paris that specializes in photography collections and visual arts books.<ref name=Socha2023>{{cite news |last=Socha |first=Miles |title=Rebooting 7L, Karl Lagerfeld's Beloved Bookstore |work=Women's Wear Daily |date=2 December 2023 |access-date=9 January 2024 |url=https://wwd.com/eye/lifestyle/7l-karl-lagerfeld-paris-bookstore-chanel-1235926266/}}</ref> In 2000, he launched a publishing imprint, Editions 7L, in collaboration with [[Steidl]].<ref>{{Cite news| last = Socha| first = Miles| title = Karl Lagerfeld Dies in Paris| work = Women's Wear Daily| access-date = 6 December 2023| date = 19 February 2019| url = https://wwd.com/fashion-news/designer-luxury/karl-lagerfeld-dies-in-paris-1203034873/}}</ref> The imprint released books on fashion and photography and also republished rare and out-of-print books.<ref name=WWD19/> The 7L bookshop was reconceptualized after Lagerfeld's death as a space for cultural events.<ref name=Socha2023/> In 2010, the [[Maison Européenne de la Photographie]] assembled the largest-ever exhibit of Lagerfeld's photography. The show featured selections from his commercial work for Chanel, his celebrity portraits for Vogue and other magazines, and his more abstract landscapes and architectural pieces, including a 2007 series titled "Another Side of Versailles."<ref name=AP2010>{{cite news |title=Karl Lagerfeld's photos on display in Paris |date=21 September 2010 |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.deseret.com/2010/9/21/20142141/karl-lagerfeld-s-photos-on-display-in-paris |access-date=31 January 2024}}</ref> Later in life, Lagerfeld realized one of his boyhood ambitions by becoming a professional caricaturist; from 2013, his political cartoons were regularly published in the German newspaper ''[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]]''.<ref>DW Documentary (2014), 5:35.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/karl-lagerfeld-skewers-angela-merkel-political-cartoon-1048053 |title=Karl Lagerfeld Skewers Angela Merkel in Political Cartoon |author=Reed, Sam |date=12 October 2017 |website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |access-date=21 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215101022/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/karl-lagerfeld-skewers-angela-merkel-political-cartoon-1048053 |archive-date=15 February 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[File:The Prince and Princess of Monaco with Hermann Bühlbecker and Karl Lagerfeld.jpg|right|thumb|Lagerfeld with Hermann Bühlbecker, [[Albert II, Prince of Monaco|Prince Albert II]] and [[Charlene, Princess of Monaco]] (2011)]] In 2013, he directed ''Once Upon a Time...'', a short film starring [[Keira Knightley]] as [[Coco Chanel]] and [[Clotilde Hesme]] as her aunt, Adrienne.<ref>{{cite web |title=ONCE UPON A TIME... A CHANEL STORY BY KARL LAGERFELD |url=https://bellomag.com/once-upon-a-time-a-chanel-story-by-karl-lagerfield-chanel-karllagerfeld/ |website=bellomag.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316080139/https://bellomag.com/once-upon-a-time-a-chanel-story-by-karl-lagerfield-chanel-karllagerfeld/ |archive-date=16 March 2015}}</ref> In June 2016, it was announced that Lagerfeld would design the two residential lobbies of the Estates at Acqualina, a residential development in Miami's [[Sunny Isles Beach, Florida|Sunny Isles Beach]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://estatesatacqualina.com/karl-lagerfeld-to-design-the-lobbies-of-brand-new-development-the-estates-at-acqualina/ |title=Karl Lagerfeld to design the lobbies of brand new development: The Estates at Acqualina {{!}} The Estates at Acqualina|access-date=1 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701194716/http://estatesatacqualina.com/karl-lagerfeld-to-design-the-lobbies-of-brand-new-development-the-estates-at-acqualina/|archive-date=1 July 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2016, [[Palazzo Pitti]] hosted another exhibition of Karl Lagerfeld's photography<ref name=Eckardt>{{cite news |last=Eckardt |first=Steph |title=At Pitti Uomo, Never-Before-Seen Photographs by Karl Lagerfeld |work=[[W (magazine)|W]] |date=14 June 2016 |access-date=9 January 2024 |url=https://www.wmagazine.com/gallery/karl-lagerfeld-pitti-uomo-exhibition-visions-of-fashion}}</ref> that included portraits and photos from fashion shoots, all inspired by classical mythology.<ref name=Fondazione>{{cite web |title=Karl Lagerfeld: Visions of Fashion |work=[[Google Arts & Culture]] |date=14 June 2016 |access-date=9 January 2024 |url=https://artsandculture.google.com/story/karl-lagerfeld-visions-of-fashion-fondazione-pitti-discovery/bgWBWfTxTt8dIA?hl=en}}</ref> In October 2018, Lagerfeld in collaboration with Carpenters Workshop Gallery launched an art collection of functional sculptures titled Architectures. Sculptures were made of Arabescato Fantastico, a rare vibrant white marble with dark gray veins and black [[Nero Marquina]] marble with milky veins. Inspired by antiquity and referred to as modern mythology the ensemble consists of gueridons, tables, lamps, consoles, fountains and mirrors.<ref>[http://www.communicart.fr/en/karl-lagerfelds-first-ever-sculptural-works-exhibition-carpenters-workshop-gallery-paris Karl Lagerfelds first eversculptutal exhibition] communicart.fr. Retrieved 19 February 2019 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012134715/https://www.communicart.fr/en/karl-lagerfelds-first-ever-sculptural-works-exhibition-carpenters-workshop-gallery-paris |date=12 October 2018}}</ref> In 2019, following the news of Lagerfeld's death, [[Galerie Gmurzynska]] mounted a retrospective exhibition highlighting the past three decades of his work.<ref name=Armstrong/>
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