Brik used by the Karl Lagerfeld brand for Cara Loves Karl (stylized as CARA ♥ KARL), the collaborative fashion line with Cara Delevingne.

Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty was published at the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), New York, shown from 5 May to 16 July 2023.

From The Met:

The book, the first complete investigation into Lagerfeld’s (1933–2019) artistry, explores his extraordinary sixty-five year career, from the designs for Chloé and Fendi in the 1960s and 1970s to his celebrated leadership in the 1980s and beyond at Chanel and with his own label. Inspired by the ‘line of beauty’ theorised by eighteenth-century English painter William Hogarth, this publication pursues the straight and serpentine ‘lines’ and their intersections in Lagerfeld’s work as a means of understanding his unique creative process.

Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty was designed by OK-RM and is entirely typeset in Mercure (Abyme, 2021). The typeface is also used for the exhibition graphics and communication materials, designed by the museum's in-house team, as well as for the Met Gala 2023, which celebrated Lagerfeld’s legacy and the opening of the exhibition.

Published in 2009, Chanel’s Russian Connection features the first use of KLTF Kerl. The condensed all-caps grotesque was specifically designed for this application. While the book by Karl Lagerfeld is out of print, the font is now publicly available for the first time. Previously referred to under the working title KLTF Titles, Karsten Luecke revisited this “simple, no-nonsense, honest” face and released it on his KLTF label. The final name, Kerl, is the German equivalent of the English guy, sport, or chap. The retail version of KLTF Kerl comes in bold and bold italic styles. There’s no lowercase, but wider alternates for some characters in four widths, Cyrillics, and circled numbers, among other extras.

Peripatetic Chanel head designer, book publisher, photographer – and now, film director – Karl Lagerfeld founded Metiers d’Arts in 2002 to showcase the talents of Chanel’s seven specialist ateliers (that provide the couture house with costume jewelry, embroidery and millinery). This volume focuses on Chanel’s 2008–2009 Metiers d’Arts collection Paris–Moscow. If Paris–Moscow indulges Lagerfeld’s fascination for Russia through fashion, then Russian Connection is that fascination embodied in book form. Lagerfeld’s images evoke Imperial Russia, Constructivism, Catherine the Great, Faberge, Russian folklore and Coco Chanel’s own passion for Russia, via the great Ballets Russes, Byzantine jewelry and her affair with the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich.

Paperback, 22×25 cm. ISBN-13: 978-3865219237.