Lagerfeld, Karl. (b. 1933): Fashion Design for Inès de La Fressange

Signed fashion design by the German fashion designer, artist, and photographer known as the creative director of Chanel and for his own eponymous fashion label, created for the French model and aristocrat Inès de La Fressange. The drawing, in black and gold marker with colored pencil, shows a broad-shouldered navy overcoat with gold buttons. Lagerfeld has signed at the lower right. On notepaper with the Chanel logo. Together with a typed note on letterhead of Harper's Bazaar editor Pia Kazan, noting: "For Ines de la Fressange, Evening overcoat in navy faille." Pinholes at the corners; overall fine. 8.25 x 11.75 inches (21 x 29.6 cm); typed note 5.5 x 8.5 inches (14 x 21.5 cm). From the collection of fashion historian and journalist June Weir-Baron (1928–2015), the first woman Vice President at Fairchild Publications, a major force in her capacity as Fashion Editor and Assistant publisher of Women's Wear Daily and W. She made news as key editor at Vogue, as Executive Fashion Editor at