Wallpaper* #127 (part 1)


Following in the footsteps of Jeff Koons, Dieter Rams, Hedi Slimane, Zaha Hadid, Rei Kawakubo and Louise Bourgeois come two titans of design who need little introduction. Wallpaper* has gone into a collaborative huddle with prodigious polymaths whose contributions to (and impact on) the contemporary society will be felt by generations to come : Phlippe Starck and Karl Lagerfeld. This the third Wallpaper* guest editors' edition : a journalistic jamboree.
Below is the much talked-about editorial by Mr Laferfeld featuring stripper-cum-coverboy Baptiste Giabiconi.