Simon Procter Trains His Lens on Lagerfeld, and Chanel’s Grand Shows

LONDON — British artist Simon Procter stumbled into fashion photography by accident but ended up becoming one of Karl Lagerfeld’s closest collaborators with an all-access pass inside his Chanel shows. There, he produced images that morphed into art pieces by experimenting with space and composition and combining multiple images together to create visuals that brought Chanel’s runways — and larger-than-life show sets — alive. “I use the language of photography and the final product might look like what you would perceive as a normal photograph, but it’s something that goes a bit further. The idea is to go a little bit beyond the fashion world and to create pieces in their own right,” says Procter, who tends to produce one piece at every show and has always tried to look beyond the buzz and celebrity factors in his work. “There’s quite a lot of emphasis on personality and I wanted the pieces to go a bit beyond that context and the grandeur of it all.”  He had been in the midst of working on a book with Lagerfeld to bring the work he had been producing at Chanel shows over the last 10 years together for the first time, when the designer died. But

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