It's a two-way street: The hunter poses with his game

Interview, Nov, 2002

It is sometimes easy to forget that for every photograph there is a photographer. While some subjects may be wild enough, weird enough, beautiful enough or interesting enough to stand free of props, no photograph is ever complete until someone snaps it.

For both this and our first L.A. special issue, Karl Lagerfeld shot literally hundreds of portraits in a week, with each frame passing before his miss-nothing eyes and razor-sharp brain. Here we present a visual "scrapbook," in which Mr. Lagerfeld, as both subject and photographer, demonstrates that there is often exotica on both sides of the lens.