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This week, luxury fashion house Karl Lagerfeld debuted its first collection made with vegan cactus leather. The label partnered with supermodel and sustainability advocate Amber Valletta a friend of the late Karl Lagerfeld to create the Lagerfeld x Amber Valletta collection which features Desserto, a vegan leather made from nopal (prickly pear cactus) by Mexican entrepreneurs Adrián López Velarde and Marte Cázarez. During his lifetime, Lagerfeld was a fan of using fur in his fashion collections. However, Valletta’s interpretation of Lagerfeld’s designs the brand’s first collaboration features a sustainable cactus leather version of the iconic K/Kushion bag which comes in a dark green or black hue (colored with organic pigments) in a pleated or seamless design. The collection also features a GRS (global recycle standard) cotton version of the K/Kusion bag and toiletry bag, along with a wallet and cardholder made from award-winning Desserto. “This collaboration shows
Amber Valletta first met Karl Lagerfeld during a Chanel fitting in the early ’90s. The 18-year-old supermodel-in-the-making felt an instant connection with the inquisitive creative director, who asked her personal questions to put her at ease and then became serious when she walked through the salon in his latest designs. “It was typical iconic Karl, waving his fan and talking about such interesting things,” recalls Valletta of their initial tête-à-tête in Paris. Years later, when her luggage got lost during a trip to Europe, it was Lagerfeld who outfitted her in looks from his namesake brand. “He was always so generous,” she shares, adding that her classic Karl Lagerfeld blazer, which emulates his own crisp, monochromatic style, and her sweet Choupette sweater, an ode to his beloved cat, are wardrobe binders Valletta still wears to this day.
Amber Valletta designs sustainable accessories for Karl Lagerfeld ktbs.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ktbs.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In 1994, Tom Ford, the newly-appointed creative director of Gucci, invented sex. Technically, people had been bonking for a while before then, but it was the Texan designer who first beat the drum for greased-up, high-class, tectonic plate-shifting levels of horn. Throughout his decade-long reign at the Italian label, Ford’s collections brimmed with revealing cut-outs, navel-grazing silk shirts, and knee-skimming shoelace chokers. And occasionally, when the build-up of desire became too much to bear, models would swagger onto the runway in nothing but a g-string and a pair of chelsea boots. If sex sells, Tom Ford was its merchant-in-chief.
Prior to his tenure at Gucci, Ford had been working under Marc Jacobs at Perry Ellis. As a relatively unknown designer, not only did his appointment as creative director come as a surprise, it was met with disapproval – an American at an Italian heritage brand, whatever next? But within a year, Gucci’s profits rose by 90 per cent and the pre