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Series of events Becoming Carl, premiering June 7 on Disney+, highlights explosive dancer Jacques de Bascher. For Madame FigaroHis great friend Philip Horto, who photographed him in the 1970s, presents an exceptional portrait of this sultry character.
They were said to be platonic lovers. Two opposing figures. Jacques de Bascher and Karl Lagerfeld. Vice and virtue. The dilettante and the hard worker. Angularity and stiffness. Seeking pleasure and maintaining desires. Jacques de Bascher? The dark side of couture, the one who allowed himself everything that the German designer forbade: drugs, alcohol, sexuality, unbridled temptation. But he was also the one who made Kaiser laugh out loud. So if the “Be Karl Lagerfeld” series, which focuses on the rise of the fashion emperor in the 1970s, places so much emphasis on Jacques de Bascher, it’s no accident. Since his death in 1989 at the age of 38, the sulphurous dandy has been the subject of everyone’s imaginations and disappeared, taking with him many mysteries. Philippe Horto, who was one of his great friends and who photographed him for a decade between 1972 and 1983, undoubtedly knew him better than anyone. He also spent a long time…
Source: Le Figaro
