Karl Lagerfeld has taken a legend and turned it into a masterpiece. Out of a remembrance of things past, Kennedy Fraser writes, come the design ideas of an ultra-modern connoisseur.
Iconic fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has died in Paris following a short illness. French media reports, Lagerfeld died this morning after being admitted to hospital the last night. The German designer, who was the creative director for Chanel and Fendi, was one of the industry's most prolific...
Lagerfeld: Yes, I don’t have the notion of the feeling “home,” or “Heimat,” as the Germans say. That doesn’t exist for me. I bring myself with me wherever I go, so it’s okay. Agren: Okay. How do you look when you wake up? Lagerfeld: That’s why I sleep alone. ...
In Hamburg the wind is whipping across the water; in the streets bare branches sway and even the Christmas trees bend in the stiff breeze.But Karl Lagerfeld feels right at home as he brings Chanel to Germany, his country of birth.“I come from the North, near the Danish border, so I ...
“When people ask me what I do, ‘designer’ seems inadequate; I tell them I’m in the fashion business,” Lagerfeld said back in 1975. “But that is what happens with ready-to-wear. You become an enterprise.” In 1999, he explained the fragility of the designer fashion business. “...
It changed hands several times after that and was left largely unoccupied until Lagerfeld moved into it in 1986 and restored it. You May Also Like “It’s the safest place in the world,” he saidduring an interview with Win the Eighties. “It’s impossible to get near the place. No pu...
“I don’t understand why she was in a hotel with no security and think like this … If you are that famous and you put all your jewelry on the net, you (should) go to hotels where nobody can come near to the room," Lagerfeld said in a video captured byThe Telegraph. “You can...
“It is emotional that Karl Lagerfeld’s first major accomplishment was with wool, as was one of his last projects. The “Knit Karl” box give each owner a unique experience that combines the pride of wearing a high-fashion designer piece with the satisfaction of having created it themselves...
Born June 14, 1868, in Baden (near Vienna); died June 26, 1943, in New York. Austrian immunologist. Landsteiner graduated from the medical school of the University of Vienna in 1891. In 1922 he became a professor of pathology and bacteriology at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research...
“i’d prefer to have my success before me now, not behind me for twenty years, like other people.” karl lagerfeld’s piercing dark eyes are minus their usual cover of tinted glasses, though his chanel makeup is on. “my past should only be addressed the minute i’m not part of ...