New Illustrated Chanel Book Unveils What Goes On Backstage

PARIS — Casting directors, milliners, weavers, models, even Karl Lagerfeld himself — they are all in “Dans Les Coulisses de Chanel,” or “Backstage at Chanel” in English, a new illustrated book shining the spotlight on the myriad people working at the French fashion house. Published in French by Les Editions de la Martinière and hitting bookstands worldwide on June 13, the 240-page tome was written by fashion journalist Laetitia Cénac and illustrated by Parisian artist Jean-Philippe Delhomme. The book is dedicated to Lagerfeld, who passed away on the day it was sent to the printers, and opens with an interview of the former creative director of Chanel complete with a portrait by Delhomme showing the designer revealing his phone wallpaper, a photo of his cat Choupette. “I draw everything myself,” Lagerfeld told Cénac. “I enjoy the artisanal side of it. Having a studio with 20 people using computers does not interest me. I always have a notepad near my pillow to write down my ideas, so as not to forget them, to remember them…On one side, Choupette; on the other, the notepad.” Flore Vladaj, première d’atelier at Chanel  Jean-Philippe Delhomme The book also features interviews of Chanel studio director Virginie Viard, Lagerfeld’s longtime right-hand woman who

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