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香奈兒藝術(shù)總監(jiān)去世:時尚易逝,風(fēng)格永存
2019-02-21
今日導(dǎo)讀
你也許沒能擁有香奈兒,卻不會不知“老佛爺”?!袄戏馉敗笨枴だ耢潮环Q為“時裝界的凱撒大帝”。2 月 19 日,拉格斐先生逝世,眾人哀嘆一個時尚時代的終結(jié)。從皮爾·巴爾曼到克洛伊,從芬迪到香奈兒,他在時尚圈活躍了六十多年,從未缺席。這也許是人們難以接受他離去一個重要原因?;仡櫋袄戏馉敗钡囊簧?,人們怎樣評價他?他又如何定義自己?讓我們跟著 Lala 老師一起進入今天的新聞。
帶著問題聽講解
Q1: 如何理解 polyglot 這個詞?
Q2: 拉格斐先生的反對者怎樣評價他?
Q3: 拉格斐先生如何定義自己?
新聞?wù)?br>
Karl Lagerfeld, designer who defined luxury fashion, dies at 85
卡爾·拉格斐,定義了奢侈品時尚的設(shè)計師去世,享年 85 歲
Karl Lagerfeld, the most prolific designer of the 20th and 21st centuries and a man whose career formed the prototype of the modern luxury fashion industry, died Tuesday in Paris.
卡爾·拉格斐,這位 20 和 21 世紀最高產(chǎn)的設(shè)計師,這個用個人事業(yè)定義了現(xiàn)代奢侈品時尚行業(yè)的男人,本周二于巴黎去世。
Creative director of Chanel since 1983 and Fendi since 1965, and founder of his own line, Mr. Lagerfeld was the definition of a fashion polyglot. In his 80s, when most of his peers were retiring to their yachts or country estates, he was designing an average of 14 new collections a year ranging from couture to the high street, and not counting collaborations and special projects.
拉格斐先生是當(dāng)之無愧的“時尚鬼才”。他于 1983 年和 1965 年起,分別擔(dān)任香奈兒和芬迪的創(chuàng)意總監(jiān),同時還是自己品牌的創(chuàng)始人。在他 80 歲之后,當(dāng)大多數(shù)同齡人都已退休,在游艇或鄉(xiāng)間莊園安度晚年時,他仍保持每年平均設(shè)計 14 個新系列,其范圍涵蓋了高級定制到高街服裝,其中還不包括合作系列和特別項目。
His greatest calling was as the orchestrator of his own myth. A self-identified “caricature,” with his dark glasses, powdered ponytail, black jeans, fingerless gloves, starched collars, Chrome Hearts jewelry and obsessive Diet Coke consumption, he achieved such a level of global fame—and controversy—that a $200 Karl Barbie doll, created in collaboration with the toymaker Mattel, sold out in less than an hour in 2014.
他最偉大的事業(yè),是成為“卡爾·拉格斐”這個神話的締造者。他將“夸張而怪誕”作為自己的定義:戴著墨鏡,梳著搽粉的馬尾辮,身著黑色牛仔褲、露指手套,衣領(lǐng)因上漿而筆挺,佩戴克羅心飾品,還迷戀著喝健怡可樂。以此形象示人的他,名聲享譽全球,也招來了不少爭議。2014 年,價值 200 美元的“芭比卡爾”由他和玩具制造商美泰聯(lián)合設(shè)計推出,不到一小時就銷售一空。
Those who wanted to dismiss Lagerfeld referred to him as a “styliste”: a designer who creates his looks by repurposing what already exists, as opposed to inventing anything new. But he rejected the idea of fashion-as-art, and the designer-as-tortured-genius. His goal was more opportunistic.
那些想趕拉格斐下臺的人稱他僅僅是位“服裝設(shè)計師”:那類不創(chuàng)造新元素,只通過改造現(xiàn)存元素來設(shè)計造型的設(shè)計師。但卡爾本人拒絕接受“時尚即藝術(shù)、而設(shè)計師是飽受折磨的天才”這樣的理念。他的目標(biāo)中,機會主義的成分更多。
“I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon,” he once said.
他曾經(jīng)說道:“我要獨領(lǐng)全球時尚風(fēng)向?!?/p>
—————? 文章來源 / 紐約時報
重點詞匯
prolific/pr??l?f?k/
adj.(藝術(shù)家,作家)多產(chǎn)的,作品豐富的
e.g.
英文釋義:producing a great number or amount of something
搭配短語:a prolific songwriter
prototype/?pro?t?ta?p/
n. 原型,典型
e.g.
英文釋義:the first example of something
polyglot/?pɑ?liɡlɑ?t/
n. 多元的人;掌握多種語言的人
e.g.
詞根詞綴:poly-(多)
peer/p?r/
n. 同齡人,同等地位或能力的人
e.g.
搭配短語:peer pressure
yacht/jɑ?t/
n. 游艇
estate/??ste?t/
n.(鄉(xiāng)村) 莊園,住宅
e.g.
搭配短語:real estate
couture/ku?t?r/
n. 高級時裝
collaboration/k??l?b??re??n/
n. 合作,合作產(chǎn)品
calling/?k??l??/
n. 專業(yè);職業(yè)
e.g.
例句:My father considered engineering the highest possible calling.
orchestrator/???rk?stre?t?r/
n. 策劃者,操縱者
e.g.
詞性拓展:orchestra (n.); orchestrate (v.)
搭配短語:a carefully orchestrated publicity campaign (v.)
caricature/?k?r?k?t??r/
n. 漫畫;夸張的表現(xiàn)風(fēng)格;(人或物的)可笑(或怪誕)樣式
e.g.
英文釋義:a person who makes themselves seem ridiculous because they exaggerate some of their characteristics
ponytail/?po?nite?l/
n. 馬尾辮
starch/stɑ?rt?/
v. 上漿(用淀粉漿硬衣服)
e.g.
詞性拓展:starch(n. 淀粉)
consumption/k?n?s?mp?n/
n. 食用;消費;消耗
e.g.
詞性拓展:consume (v.)
in collaboration with ...
與...合作
dismiss/d?s?m?s/
v. (尤指因做錯事)使免職,將…解職,解雇
e.g.
搭配短語:dismiss the taxi
例句:She can claim she is unfairly dismissed from her post.
refer to ... as ...
把…稱為...
e.g.
例句:Her mother never referred to him again.
styliste/st?l?st/
n. (法)服裝設(shè)計師
repurpose/?ri??p??rp?s/
v. 重新利用;改變…的用途
e.g.
英文釋義:adapt for use in a different purpose
as opposed to
而不是
e.g.
同義詞:rather than
opportunistic/?ɑ?p?rtu??n?st?k/
adj. 投機的;機會主義的
拓展內(nèi)容
克羅心
克羅心(Chrome Hearts)是著名的好萊塢奢侈品牌,由 Richard Stark 于 1988 年創(chuàng)立。該品牌提供的商品涵蓋皮具、925 銀飾、珠寶飾品、家具、童裝、皮包、文具等各個方面。
一開始,這個品牌只提供客戶訂單,并不面向大眾出售。隨著 1996 年第一家品牌專賣店在紐約曼哈頓開門營業(yè),越來越多的明星和潮人開始佩戴這家的飾品,克羅心這個品牌才慢慢被人熟知。
品牌設(shè)計風(fēng)格融合搖滾、哥德、朋克、嘻哈等元素,給人以低調(diào)的奢華感,成功吸引了全世界大批個性張揚的客戶追捧購買。其銀飾秉持著純手工打造,設(shè)計精美、質(zhì)感一流,因此它的藝術(shù)價值已經(jīng)遠超飾品本身的意義。
美泰公司和“老佛爺”芭比
美泰公司是全球最大的玩具公司,總部位于美國加州。在兒童玩具產(chǎn)品的設(shè)計、生產(chǎn)、銷售等方面全球領(lǐng)先。美泰公司的主要產(chǎn)品包括芭比娃娃、美國女孩娃娃以及托馬斯小火車、獅子王、蝙蝠俠、辛普森一家等品牌授權(quán)的玩具。
2014 年,美泰與卡爾·拉格斐聯(lián)名推出限量芭比,造型正如女版“老佛爺”,一頭帥氣白發(fā)搭配經(jīng)典墨鏡。娃娃的衣著方面也吸睛十足,白色襯衫、黑色領(lǐng)帶與西裝外套,與拉格斐經(jīng)典造型如出一轍。該娃娃全球限量僅 999 個。一經(jīng)推出,立馬售空。
“老佛爺”Karl Lagerfeld 生前采訪“自己”
墨鏡、白發(fā)、小辮,眼前還是那個不茍言笑的“時尚教父”Karl Lagerfeld。這次,他采訪起了“自己”,一問一答,談吐優(yōu)雅又不失幽默,還分享了自己的成功秘訣和時尚觀念。





