Grace: This novel needs about twenty pages of last minute conflict - just run with it! Grace: I love you too - but WE CAN NEVER BE.
Matthew: Wow, you're pretty - I mean WHORE! He doesn't want to give in and let his uncle win, but Grace is just so darn pretty! The Rub: After failing to escape for a third time, Matthew realizes that Grace's enforced presence on the estate is his uncle's attempt to get him to surrender and accept his captivity. Ever since, he's kept Matthew imprisoned on an isolated estate and bribed unscrupulous doctors to maintain Matthew's lunacy. After catching a brain fever at the age of fourteen, Matthew was declared insane by his grasping uncle Lord John, who then gained control of the Landsdowne fortune.
The Dude: Matthew Landsdowne, Marquess of Sheene. And Lord Sheene, thinking she's his uncle's spy, wants nothing to do with her. The Rub: Lord Sheene's "guardian" Lord John informs her that if she can't lure Sheene into her bed by the end of the week, her days are numbered. Penniless and recently widowed, she's drugged and kidnapped by brutal thugs and wakes up on a secluded country estate, where she's informed her task is to entertain and pleasure its imprisoned occupant, the supposedly insane Lord Sheene. “We called it Madonna meets Marlon Brando.The Chick: Grace Paget. “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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