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Karl Lagerfeld may have earned icon status as the designer at the helm of Chanel for the last 35 years, or as the creative director of Fendi for the last 53 years, or even as the designer behind his eponymous label since 1984, but he was also a renaissance man who often devoted himself to other creative projects.

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Lagerfeld also collaborated with brands like Diet Coke, for which he designed striped and dotted bottles; and the European ice cream brand Magnum, for which he directed a commercial starring Rachel Bilson.

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.

“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that‘s gone forever, impossible to repro