PETER FARAGO & INGELA KLEMETZ FARAGO NORTHERN WOMEN IN CHANEL

Foto: Peter Farago & Ingela Klemetz Farago.

DESIGNMUSEUM DANMARK is pleased to present Peter Farago & Ingela Klemetz Farago’s exhibition: NORTHERN WOMEN IN CHANEL on view from February 1st through April 8th 2012.

The visionary photographer duo Peter Farago and Ingela Klemetz Farago, has as part of an exclusive collaboration with CHANEL in 2010 and 2011, created full fashion stories featuring 45 of the most sought-after supermodels from the Nordic and Baltic countries. The project has resulted in a lavish coffee table book and a touring photography exhibition, both entitled NORTHERN WOMEN IN CHANEL.

Freja Beha Erichsen, Helena Christensen, Iselin Steiro, Louise Pedersen, Edita Vilkeviciute, Sigrid Ågren, Frida Gustavsson, Suvi Koponen, Kirsi Pyrhonen, Carmen Kass, Siri Tollerod, Caroline Winberg and Dorothea Barth Jörgensen are just a few of the women involved. The models have been carefully chosen to represent an aestethic flair for fashion but also a desire to convey a sense of humanity. Profits from sales of the book are donated to the organisation Save The Children.

The images of these remarkable women allow us to take an exclusive and intimate insight into the significant past and present Haute Couture and Prêt-à-Porter collections created by Karl Lagerfeld for CHANEL as well as the brand’s Fine Jewelry and Beauty creations. Thanks to Faragos’ sense of the pictorial, these photographs not only celebrate the fascinating designs they record, but also produce sensational reinventions, demonstrating how fashion, photography and art can come together.

Furthermore the series of images are accompanied by a preface by Karl Lagerfeld in celebration of these Northern heroines.

For the exhibition at the DESIGNMUSEUM DANMARK, Northern women in CHANEL has been enriched with a suite of black and white portraits of the participating models, delicate intimate moments captured by the photographers. These photographs will also be published in a new, highly exclusive edition entitled Bare Moments. Limited to 100 individually hand numbered copies worldwide, each signed by Peter Farago & Ingela Klemetz Farago, Bare Moments comes together with Northern Women in CHANEL as a 2 volume Exclusive Collector’s Edition in a cloth slipcase.

The opening party of the exhibition will take place February 1st and the exhibition closes on April 8th. 50 large prints and 25 black and white portraits will be exhibited.

For further information, high resolution images and interviews with the authors please contact:

Andrea de La Barre de Nanteuil
Press Manager Nordic and Baltic countries
Tlf. +33 1 58 37 54 67
andrea.de-la-barre-de-nanteuil@chanel-corp.com

Dorothée Marcuzzi
Press Officer Nordic and Baltic countries
Tlf. +33 1 58 37 42 53
dorothee.marcuzzi@chanel-corp.com

Nikolina Olsen-Rule
Kommunikationschef, Designmuseum Danmark
Tlf. +45 33 18 56 80
nor@designmuseum.dk

Last updated 11.05.2012