Photographed by Karl Lagerfeld

Sep 9, 2009 12:45 GMT  ·  By

As it’s preparing to take over the international music scene with a third music album, Tokio Hotel, the German emo / glam rock band, is featured in the October issue of German Vogue magazine. The feature is part of the 30th anniversary of the prestigious magazine, a very special occasion indeed, and has been made possible thanks to designer Karl Lagerfeld’s contribution, who acted as photographer on the photoshoot.

At this point in time, only one single shot of the band has surfaced on the Internet, but the boys are saying fans would better be prepared to be blown away, because their feature will be major. Perhaps working with someone who is equally eccentric as they are, Lagerfeld, helped in this sense, it is being said. However, from what frontman Bill Kaulitz tells JustJared, the photoshoot was incredibly fun and everyone was extremely happy with how it came out.

“When I arrived at the photo shoot in Berlin, [photographer] Karl Lagerfeld wanted to start immediately. I had just gotten back from the final album recordings in L.A. and was pretty tired, but Karl cheered me up right away and gave me energy. We got along really well and laughed a lot together – Karl is such a loving person. He immediately knew what kind of photos he wanted. Karl has an amazing vision and to me it felt like he already had the final picture in his head beforehand.” Kaulitz says for the aforementioned celebrity e-zine.

And the German Vogue feature is not the only thing the boys from Tokio Hotel are working on at the moment, as we also reported a short while ago. With “Humanoid,” their third album, reaching music stores in the US in October, the guys are now promoting it and the first single off it, “Automatic,” a video for which was released almost a week ago. Shot in the desert and focusing on a very unlikely romance story between two giant robots, the video is already causing a frenzy amidst fans of the band.

Making that too was extremely fun for all members of the band, as Kaulitz revealed in an older interview. “Shooting the ‘Automatic’ video three days in the desert was quite an adventure. It was in the middle of nowhere in Africa – no cell phone reception, no Internet, not even paved roads. But in return we got a location that was just unreal. I’ve never had such a good feeling after leaving a set. I knew it was right from the beginning. When I first read the video script I knew this was exactly how I wanted to visualize our song ‘Automatic.’” the singer was telling the media days before the official release of the video.