Editor
When French art dealer Pierre Passebon hosted a show of photographs by Karl Lagerfeld at his Galerie du Passage in Paris back in 2004, most visitors invariably gravitated toward one depicting large cacti from a botanical garden in Monaco, over which Lagerfeld splashed a wash of mauve. Editions of the print sold briskly.
Lagerfeld cornered Passebon for an explanation of that photo’s popularity and the gallerist mused that perhaps it…
