The approaches each took didn’t catch fire when put together. Stearns is a fine classicist with aristocratic lineaments and the plushest of plies, but he and Seo lack chemistry. Perhaps he draws more from the reticent Hee Seo than did his replacement, Cory Stearns, on the evening of ABT’s Australian premiere. It is possible things may have been different if the originally announced opening night Prince Siegfried, David Hallberg, had not had to withdraw due to injury. Hee Seo in American Ballet Theatre’s Swan Lake What of the underlying purpose – the desperate love and profound act of forgiveness that bring Swan Lake into the human realm, give it immediacy and make it so moving? They are not to be encountered here, or at least not at ABT’s opening night performance, which was filled with admirable dancing but empty of emotional resonance. They tell us what is happening, but not why. These things are important elements, but are a kind of outer skin. Two lovers die by drowning but moments later, in an apotheosis, suffuse the air with their benevolence. An evil lake-dwelling sorcerer becomes a devastatingly attractive nobleman in the blink of an eye. KEVIN McKenzie’s version of Swan Lake for American Ballet Theatre is a medieval fairy tale of transformation. “We called it Madonna meets Marlon Brando.Lyric Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane, August 28. “This image is what Karl called ‘city ballerina,’” Wintour says of the photograph featuring supermodels wearing leather jackets paired with colorful, voluminous skirts. This rebellious spirit dominated the late ’80s and early ’90s, and its influence on Lagerfeld is particularly clear in a 1991 Vogue editorial shot by Peter Lindbergh. In the photograph, Campbell wears undeniably glamorous Chanel pearls and a gold jacket paired with more casual leggings. The new video comes ahead of the “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty” exhibition opening at The Met and Monday’s Met Gala, for which the dress code is “in honor of Karl.” The sentimental trip down memory lane begins in 1989, with Naomi Campbell’s first cover for American Vogue, shot by Patrick Demarchelier.

“When you go back to the quintessential Karl, he would always say, ‘I’m just a dressmaker,’” Wintour says in the clip.

Wintour is more than equipped to speak on Lagerfeld’s genius in addition to their professional relationship, the two were close friends for decades. In a brand-new Life in Looks video, Vogue editor Anna Wintour reflects on some of the most memorable and innovative designs by late designer Karl Lagerfeld, as seen in the pages of the magazine.

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