Major exhibition of Karl Lagerfeld’s photography announced

Pitti Uomo’s schedule is getting hotter by the day. First, Russian designer Gosha Rubchinskiy announced that he would be staging his SS17 show at the the Florentine biannual menswear trade show, then came news that Raf Simons would be doing the same. Now, it has been announced that a retrospective of Karl Lagerfeld’s photography will also be taking place as part of the event.

Hosted by Palazzo Pitti, Karl Lagerfeld_Visions of Fashion will be curated by Eric Pfrunder (Chanel’s image director) and Gerhard Steidl (the publisher), and will chart the fashion legend’s photographic career. The exhibition will bring together work from throughout the Kaiser’s career, “from snapshots and fashion shoots published in the world's most important fashion magazines to others inspired by classical mythology, created using a variety of techniques” – as well as never-seen-before images.

This will be the second exhibition of Lagerfeld’s photography of late; the Pinacothèque de Paris in Paris played host to the Karl Lagerfeld, a Visual Journey exhibition which closed last month.

Karl Lagerfeld_Visions of Fashion is on show at the Palazzo Della Civiltà Italianai in Florence from June 14