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KARL LAGERFELD

Karl Otto Lagerfeld has been born on 10th September 1933 in Hamburg, Germany and

is widely recognized as one of the most influential fashion designers of the late

20th century.

He has been born 10 years after the couple's marriage, when his mother was 42 and his father 60.

Because of his parents' previous marriages, he has several half-siblings.

A Catholic baptismal record indicates his birth date as 10 September

1933 but Lagerfeld states he was born in 1938.

Karl Otto Lagerfeld has been born as the only child of Christian and Elizabeth Lagerfeld. His father was a member of a Swedish merchant-banking family and made his fortune introducing condensed milk to Germany.

He made his name important in collaboration with Chloé, Fendi and Chanel. In the early 1980s he set up his own label and called it Lagerfeld, which launched perfumes

and clothing lines. Lagerfeld was well-known for equipping leading artists.

In 1953 he emigrated to Paris with his mother. Two years later at the age of 22, Lagerfeld was offered a position at

Pierre Balmain, after winning a competition for a coat sponsored by the International Wool Secretariat.

"Yves Saint Laurent, who also won the contest for a dress awaed was working for Dior. Other young people

I knew were working for Balenciaga, whom they thought was God, but I wasn't so impressed,"

he recalled in 1976.

Another three years later he moved to Jean Patou. "I became bored there too and I quit and tried to go back to school, but

that didn't work, so I spent two years mostly on beaches – I guess I studied life."

In the 1990s he once employed strippers and an Italian adult film star to model his black-and-white collection for Fendi.

He has produced legendary pieces like the multitude of outstandingly eccentric hats.

Lagerfeld, along with Calvin Klein, was the target of a pieing by PETA in 2001 at a fashion premiere at Lincoln Center in New York City.

In 2004 he designed some outfits for the international music artist's Madonna Re-Invention tour and

Kylie Minogue's Showgirls tour. Recently, Lagerfeld collaborated with the international Swedish

fashion brand H&M.

On November 12, 2004, H&M offered a limited range of different Lagerfeld clothes in chosen outlets for women and men.

Only two days after having supplied its outlets, H&M announced that almost all the clothes were sold out.

Lagerfeld has expressed a lack of fear that working with lower-end brands will taint his image, although in the past he has worked closely

with the exclusive hosiery designer Wolford.

Lagerfeld also was busy with photographing. He produced Visionaire 23: The Emperor's New Clothes, a

series of nude pictures of the South African model David Miller.

Lagerfeld is currently the chief executive of design at the House of Chanel.

The designer was also the subject of a French reality series called Signé Chanel in 2005. The show covered

the creation of his Fall/Winter 2004-2005 Chanel couture collection.

It aired on Sundance Channel in the United States during the fall of 2006.

On December 18, 2006, Karl Lagerfeld announced the launch of an amazing, genius collection for men and

women dubbed K Karl Lagerfeld. The collection will include fitted T-shirts and a wide range of

jeans.

Lagerfeld is also famous for a dramatic transformation of his body, when he lost 42 kg in thirteen months.

“I suddenly wanted to dress differently, to wear clothes designed by Hedi Slimane,” he said.

“But these fashions, modeled by very, very slim boys—and not men my age—required me to lose at least 40 kg. It took me exactly thirteen months.“

The diet was created specially for Lagerfeld by Dr. Jean-Claude Houdret, which led to a book called The Karl Lagerfeld Diet .

• "The reason American cars don’t sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That’s why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire." - Karl Lagerfeld, Vanity Fair, Feb. 1992

• "Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion – it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere."

• "I don't like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness."

• "The iPod completely changed the way people approach music." • "Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!" • "People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately

devaluing their own existence."

Karl Lagerfeld` s quotations

That‘s what WE think about him :

Lagerfeld is one of the most famous international designers of the world. That‘s a great honour for Germany and even for youths like us, cause he‘s not only collecting for runways but also for H&M, what‘s our favourite fashion store.

Sourceslist :

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Lagerfeld

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