{"id":30788,"date":"2019-02-19T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lovehappensmag.com\/blog\/?p=30788"},"modified":"2020-12-01T18:00:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T18:00:37","slug":"karl-lagerfeld-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lovehappensmag.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/19\/karl-lagerfeld-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tribute to Karl Lagerfeld: One of The Most Prolific Designers of the 20th & 21st Centuries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Even if you are far from a fashion connoisseur, there is a good chance you have heard the name Karl Lagerfeld before, and if you haven\u2019t \u2013 you need to! One of the most influential and recognizable fashion designers of the 20th<\/sup> and 21st<\/sup> centuries. Exquisitely unique, outspoken, witty and often outrageous, Karl Lagerfeld is an icon whose career defined the modern luxury fashion industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t\nwant to be real in other people\u2019s lives. I want to be an apparition,\u201d said Mr.\nLagerfeld in the 2008 documentary \u201cLagerfeld Confidential\u201d. Known for denying\nhis own mortality and statements like \u201cI\u2019m very much down to earth, just not\nthis earth,\u201d when Mr. Lagerfeld left this world on February 18, 2019 at the age\nof 85, he left behind him an inimitable fashion legacy. And his spirit most certainly\nwill live on for centuries to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notorious\nfor his work as creative director of the French luxury fashion house Chanel. At\nthe same time, Mr. Lagerfeld helmed Italian lifestyle brand Fendi and headed up\nhis eponymous label, Karl Lagerfeld. An amazing creative force who masterfully\nspoke the language of many different fashion brands simultaneously, Mr.\nLagerfeld\u2019s creativity and drive truly redefined fashion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A New Kind of Designer<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Vanessa Friedman, The New York Times\u2019 fashion director, described Karl Lagerfeld as a \u201cshape-shifter\u201d designer<\/a>. Noting that while a Karl Lagerfeld brand does exist, Mr. Lagerfeld\u2019s most substantial contribution to fashion was not in creating a new profile like Christian Dior and Coco Chanel. His genius lay in his ability to be a \u201ccreative force who lands at the top of a heritage brand and reinvents it by identifying its sartorial semiology and then wresting it into the present with a healthy dose of disrespect and a dollop of pop culture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She went\non to write, \u201cNot that he put it that way exactly. What he said was: \u2018Chanel is\nan institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore \u2014 and then\nyou get something out of her.\u2019 A statement clearly true to Mr. Lagerfeld\u2019s often\noutrageous character. In true artist style, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today it\nis common to see designers at the helm of past design legends, think Tom Ford\nat Gucci, John Galliano at Dior and Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy and Burberry.\nBut when Lagerfeld first began at Chanel in 1983 the concept was novel and surprising.\nBy daring to take on the legend of Chanel and continually finding success for\ndecades, Mr. Lagerfeld grew Chanel into the world\u2019s largest and most powerful\nluxury fashion brand while imprinting fashion lovers around the globe with his\nown profile. A path that paved the way for this new type of designer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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A Creator Through and Through<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Designing an average of 14 new collections a year ranging from couture to the high street and orchestrating countless collaborations and special project right up until the end of his life, Karl Lagerfeld relished a 24\/7 lifestyle of work and never stopped creating. \u201cIdeas come to you when you work,\u201d said Karl Lagerfeld backstage before a Fendi show at age 83. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why should I stop working? If I do, I\u2019ll die and it\u2019ll all be finished.<\/p>– Karl Lagerfeld on Retirement<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Paris<\/a> was Karl Lagerfeld\u2019s home and final resting place. A city he helped turn into the fashion capital of the world. He was responsible for so many shows, stores, and<\/g> events in Paris that in 2017, Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, bestowed upon him the Medal of the City of Paris. The metropolis\u2019 highest honor awarded to those for services to the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hard work\nwas second nature to Mr. Lagerfeld. Perhaps owed to his German heritage, but\neither way deeply ingrained in him. And in true Karl Lagerfeld style he did not\nwant people to look at him as working hard. \u201cPlease don\u2019t say I work hard. Nobody\nis forced to do this job, and if they don\u2019t like it they should do another one,\u201d\nhe told Susannah Frankel of The Independent. \u201cPeople buy dresses to be happy,\nnot to hear about somebody who suffered over a piece of taffeta.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karl Lagerfeld\u2019s Self-Identified \u201cCaricature\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One\u2019s\nsuccess is often so much more than just raw talent. And in the case of Karl\nLagerfeld this fact reigned true.  \u201cI\nwould like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon,\u201d he once said. To\ndo so of course his image must be nothing less than unforgettable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr.\nLagerfeld had an instinct about his own image and was a celebrity for so long\nwe often forget he changed this image more than once. Changing with the times,\nboth personally and professional, was one of the many keys to Mr. Lagerfeld\u2019s\nsuccess. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Karl Lagerfeld walks the runway during the Chanel Haute Couture Fall\/Winter 2011\/2012 show as part of Paris Fashion Week at Grand Palais on July 5, 2011<\/g> in Paris, France.
Source: Photo by Pascal Le Segretain\/Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Seldom\nseen in the last decade without his signature dark glasses, snowy white ponytail,\nwhite Hilditch & Key shirt with perfectly starched collar, fingerless biker\ngloves and multiple silver rings, Mr. Lagerfeld created his own caricature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fun fact: Mr. Lagerfeld told Susannah Frankel of The Independent that he had more than a thousand of his signature white Hilditch & Key shirts!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But before his legendary and, some might say exaggerated, black and white look, let\u2019s not forget the iconic 1970s portrait by Helmut Newton of Mr. Lagerfeld with jet-black hair, a thick beard<\/a>, and<\/g> rimless monocle. Or the almost 20 years he was rarely seen without a Japanese fan\u2013fluttering it for photographers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me<\/g> the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long.”<\/p> \u2013 Karl Lagerfeld, 2007<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A Love of Knowledge, Books, Words,\nand a Bit of Political Incorrectness<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Karl\nLagerfeld was voracious for knowledge throughout his life. He was known for\nhaving a dread of being pass\u00e9 and thus was constantly reading and researching.\nAlways ensuring that he remained current. \u201cChange is the healthiest way to\nsurvive,\u201d said Mr. Lagerfeld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To feed\nhis love of knowledge Mr. Lagerfeld often collected objects such as furniture,\nbooks, magazines and even apartments as part of his deep dive into past decades\nand their aesthetic movements. He would amass carefully curated collections and\nthen once he was ready to move on to the next era, he would auction them away\nwithout nostalgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But he\noften kept the books! An avid reader, Mr. Lagerfeld estimated his personal\ncollection of books to be 300,000 in an onstage interview at Lincoln Center in\n2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full of\nfacts, information and observations, Mr. Lagerfeld had a reputation for long\nmonologues in his quick German accent. He was witty and sharp, and often made notable\nquips. So often that his quotes even filled a whole book in 2013 \u2014 \u201cThe World According\nto Karl.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mr. Lagerfeld took delight in being a bit politically incorrect!<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBe politically\ncorrect, but please don\u2019t bother other people with conversation about being\npolitically correct, because that\u2019s the end of everything. You want to create\nboredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In\na meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags,\nthe discussion of fur is childish.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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A Young Karl Lagerfeld<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Karl\nLagerfeld was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1933. Although there was some dispute\nabout his actual year of birth as he was often coy about his birth year. Wikipedia\ngives a great account of the dispute, a clear representation of his character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Birth Year Dispute According to Wikipedia<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Lagerfeld was known to\nmisrepresent his birth year, claiming to be younger than his actual age, and to\nmisrepresent his parents’ background. For example, he claimed that he was born\nin 1938 to “Elisabeth of Germany” and Otto Ludwig Lagerfeld from\nSweden,[13]<\/a><\/sup> although\nthese claims have been conclusively proven to be entirely wrong, as his father\nwas from Hamburg and spent his entire life in Germany, with no Swedish\nconnection whatsoever.[11]<\/a>[12]<\/a><\/sup> There\nis also no evidence that his mother Elisabeth Bahlmann, the daughter of a\nmiddle-class local politician, called herself “Elisabeth of Germany.”[12]<\/a><\/sup> He\nwas known to insist that no one knows his real birth date. In an interview on\nFrench television in February 2009, Lagerfeld said that he was “born\nneither in 1933 nor 1938.”[14]<\/a><\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In April 2013, he finally declared that he was born in 1935.[15]<\/a><\/sup> A birth announcement was, however, published by his parents in 1933, and the baptismal register in Hamburg also lists him as born in that year, conclusively proving that he was born on 10 September 1933.[16]<\/a><\/sup> Bild am Sonntag published his baptismal records in 2008 and interviewed his teacher and a classmate, who both confirmed that he was born in 1933. Despite that, Karl Lagerfeld announced publicly that he was celebrating his “70th birthday” on 10 September 2008, despite actually turning 75.[17]<\/a>[18]<\/a>[19]<\/a><\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lagerfeld Family<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Karl\nLagerfeld\u2019s father was Otto Lagerfeld, a well-off managing director of the\nGerman brand of the American Milk Products Company and his mother (Otto\u2019s 2nd<\/sup>\nwife) was Elisabeth Bahlmann. He had one older half-sister, Thea, and an older\nsister Martha Christiane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr.\nLagerfeld often stated he disliked his childhood. During World War II his\nfather moved the family to a small town in northern Germany where Mr.\nLagerfeld, who was used to wearing a formal suit to school, did not really fit\nin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By all\naccounts, Mr. Lagerfeld\u2019s mother was the single most influential person on his\nlife. He said she was responsible for his quick and voluminous speaking style. A\ntrait he embraced, but not one he could have been particularly thankful of his\nmother for based on a story he told to actress Jessica Chastain at his Lincoln\nCenter interview. The story went that when his mother asked a question, he \u201chad\nto answer quickly, and it had to be funny. If I thought of something to say 10\nminutes later, she would slap me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After\nattending a private primary school in Germany, Mr. Lagerfeld finished his\nsecondary school at the Lyc\u00e9e Montaigne in Paris, where he majored in drawing\nand history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Karl Lagerfeld after winning the coats category in a design competition sponsored by the International Wool Secretariat, Paris, 14th December 1954. With him is a model wearing his design.
Source: Photo by Keystone\/Hulton Archive\/Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

With no\nformal training in fashion, in 1954, at age 18, Mr. Lagerfeld entered a fashion\ncompetition. The International Wool Secretariat, now reborn as the\nInternational Woolmark Prize. He won the womenswear coat category. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fun Fact: Yves Saint Laurent won the dress category that same year.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early Career: Balmain, Patou,\nChlo\u00e9 & Fendi<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Karl\nLagerfeld began his career at Pierre Balmain as an assistant and then apprentice\nsoon after winning the International Wool Secretariat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After 3\nyears he moved to House of Patou where he stayed on for 5 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the\nworld of ready-to-wear emerging, Mr. Lagerfeld decided to leave House of Patou\nfor a freelance career. Even this early on his career it was clear being tied\nto one label was not for Karl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chlo\u00e9 <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The most influential work of his freelancing years was with the brand Chlo\u00e9<\/a>. Founder Gaby Aghion hired Mr. Lagerfeld in 1965 as freelancer and the pair worked on and off together until 1992. Mr. Lagerfeld served as creative head twice for Chlo\u00e9. First in 1974. Mr. Lagerfeld\u2019s tongue-in-cheek designs and spectacular entertaining shows during this period helped cement Chlo\u00e9\u2019s bohemian romance style. His designs became go-to for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Brigitte Bardot. Secondly in 1992 when he returned to Chlo\u00e9 while still at Chanel. This was a less successful collaboration and officially ended his ongoing partnership with the brand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fendi<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In 1967\nMr. Lagerfeld began as a consultant director at Fendi. He was hired by the Fendi\nfamily to modernize the house\u2019s fur lines. Mr. Lagerfeld refused to treat\nluxury pelts too preciously, instead he saved them, dyed them and in turn\ncreated \u201cFun Fur.\u201d A name which led to the brand\u2019s infamous FF logo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 1983\nMr. Lagerfeld joined Chanel in order to help revive the brand who had been waning\nsince Coco Chanel\u2019s death a decade earlier. First, he went to haute couture and\nthe next year to ready-to-wear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“[Chanel\nwas] a sleeping beauty. Not even a beautiful one. She snored,” said Mr.\nLagerfeld of Chanel in “Lagerfeld Confidential,” a 2007 documentary.\n“So, I was to revive a dead woman.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alain\nWertheimer, co-owner of the House of Chanel, hailed Mr. Lagerfeld after his\ndeath stating he was “an extraordinary creative mind to whom I gave carte\nblanche in the early 1980s to reinvent the brand.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Mr. Lagerfeld acknowledged Chanel\u2019s<\/a> history, he treated it irreverently. He took the brand\u2019s rich iconography, its ropes of pearls, camellias, boucl\u00e9, Cs, and twisted them into forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Karl Lagerfeld with Chanel Runway Models
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“My job is not to do what she did, but what she would have done,” he said of the house’s founder, Coco Chanel<\/a>. “The good thing about Chanel is it is an idea you can adapt to many things.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During\nthe 1980s women were refusing to play by old rules and Mr. Lagerfeld\u2019s\niconoclasm was the perfect solution, so he transformed Chanel into the armor\nthey could wear to their battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Celebrities\ntook notice of the new Chanel and its alluring director and flocked to the\nbrand. Mr. Lagerfeld and the House grasped the marketing opportunity creating promotional\nfilms with Nicole Kidman and mini-features with Kristen Stewart and Pharrell\nWilliams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chanel Transformed<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Mr.\nLagerfeld\u2019s designs turned Chanel into a global powerhouse and one of the world\u2019s\nmost valuable couture houses with estimated revenues of over $4 billion per\nyear. Before luxury collaborations were common place, Mr. Lagerfeld\u2019s business\nsavvy landed him as the first designer to design a collection for H&M. A\ntrend that was later followed by Stella McCartney, Versace and Maison Margiela,\namong others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chanel Runway at Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring\/Summer 2019
Source: Photo by Pascal Le Segretain\/Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

His\nunderstanding of social media and its power in the fashion industry, especially\nsurrounding runway shows, coupled with his radical innovation and creativity led\nhim to create some of fashion history\u2019s most spectacular shows. Set in his\nvenue of choice, Paris\u2019 Grand Palais, a 265-ton iceberg from Sweden, a vibrant casino,\na blooming garden oasis and a sandy beach with real lapping waves are just a\nfew of the legendary sets Mr. Lagerfeld created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, he\nbecame King Karl, reining over Chanel until his death shortly after his last\nhaute couture show in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Karl Lagerfeld Brand<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 1984,\njust one year after starting at Chanel, Mr. Lagerfeld started his own eponymous\nbrand. The Karl Lagerfeld brand was established to channel “intellectual\nsexiness”, however the line struggled to find the same success or\npopularity as Chanel and Fendi. Some suggest this is because Karl worked best within\nthe context of someone else\u2019s vision, while others say he simply did not have\nenough time. Either way his legacy lives on through this namesake brand just as\nstrongly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond Fashion<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Karl\nLagerfeld was also a photographer; his work was exhibited at the Pinacoth\u00e8que\nde Paris. He was a publisher of his own imprint Steidl, Edition 7L. An author\nof a popular diet book published in 2002 about how he lost 92 pounds, \u201cThe Karl\nLagerfeld Diet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karl Lagerfeld Furniture<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In October 2018, Karl Lagerfeld entered the world of home d\u00e9cor<\/a>, a common practice for luxury fashion houses at this time. Partnering with Carpenters Workshop Gallery, he launched a collection of functional sculptures. Each piece is made of Arabescato Fantastico, a rare vibrant white marble with dark gray veins, and black Nero Marquina, a marble with milky veins. The collection consists of tables, lamps, fountains and<\/g> mirrors inspired by antiquity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forays in Interior Design<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Les Grands Appartement at H\u00f4tel de Crillon designed by Karl Lagerfeld
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In 2013 Karl Lagerfeld took on his first interior design project. A four-year renovation of Paris’ H\u00f4tel de Crillon.<\/a> The hotel reopened in 2017 unveiling a magnificent transformation making the hotel one of the most venerable in Paris<\/a>. And while there are many things to admire about the beautiful interior, the two Karl Lagerfeld-designed Les Grands Appartements are breathtakingly lavish!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Check out the two-ton bathtub carved from a single block of Carrera marble and another marble masterpiece in Karl Lagerfeld’s stunning bathroom designs of Les Grands Appartements!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lobby design by Karl Lagerfeld at the Miami-based Estates of Acqualina
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In 2016 Mr. Lagerfeld began his first US-based interior design project<\/a>, two lobbies at the Estates at Acqualina<\/a> in Miami. A residential community within the Acqualina Resort & Spa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Acqualina describes Mr. Lagerfeld’s lavish and elegant interior design as “Drawing on influences from the diverse worlds of contemporary art, historic architecture and Art Deco patterns. Karl Lagerfeld\u2019s design juxtaposes these elements with centerpieces incorporating flowers and fountains to create an atmosphere at once lush and elegant. A classic South Florida color palette of blues, white, silver, gray and pale pink reinforces a sense of place while introducing a layered<\/g>, innovative modernity extending from the lobby to the gardens and the glimmering ocean beyond.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Mr. Lagerfeld’s foray into interiors was minuscule in comparison to his work in fashion, the brilliant designer most definitely left his mark on the world of interior design. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Mysterious Personal Life<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Although\nMr. Lagerfeld proclaimed to reject the concepts of fashion-as-art and designer-as-tortured\ngenius, his innovative creations and personal life in many ways said otherwise.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Paris and Monte Carlo, to Hamburg, Manhattan and\nVermont, Karl Lagerfeld lived in numerous homes over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Villa La Vigie – Karl Lagerfeld’s Former Residence in Monaco<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In 2007 Mr.\nLagerfeld moved into an apartment in the Left Bank\u2019s Quai Voltaire. The small\nspace was crowded with his massive book collection and an excess of clothing. Mr.\nLagerfeld lived there alone with his Birman cat, Choupette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Choupette<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The snowy\nwhite Choupette became almost as famous as his owner. With his own coffee table\nbook, Instagram account, maids and diamond necklaces, Choupette reportedly\ngenerated $4 million in modeling fees in 2014. Mr. Lagerfeld was also known for\nsaying the cat was the heir to his fortune and that he would have married him\nif it was legal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe is\nlike a kept woman,\u201d he said. \u201cShe has a strong personality. She has lunch and\ndinner with me on the table, with her own food. She doesn\u2019t touch my food. She doesn\u2019t\nwant to eat on the floor. She sleeps under a pillow and she even knows how to\nuse an iPad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A \u2018catman\u2019\nby choice, Mr. Lagerfeld\u2019s human entourage was ever-shifting with no real\nstrong presence of seemingly significant others. However, his godson Hudson\nKroenig did become something of a constant the last few years of Mr. Lagerfeld\u2019s\nlife. The son of one of Karl\u2019s favorite male models Brad Kroenig, Hudson would\noften appear on the runway with Mr. Lagerfeld to take a bow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Karl Lagerfeld Legacy Lives\nOn<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA sense\nof humor and a little lack of respect: that\u2019s what you need to make a legend\nsurvive,\u201d said Mr. Lagerfeld of the legacy he created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A legacy that will live on through the Karl Lagerfeld brand, Fendi\u2019s FF logo, his fashion quips, decades of Chanel past and years to come with Virginie Viard, his closest collaborator for more than 30 years and his successor at Chanel. And so much more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Words by Anna Beck Bimba<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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