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 Karl Lagerfeld Biography
 
Name :Karl Lagerfeld
Profession : Designer
Birth Details : born September 10, 1938 (according to some sources 1933
Trade mark : Always wears sunglasses in public
Carries an Oriental fan
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 Karl Lagerfeld Trivia
  • German-born fashion designer (mostly for Chanel), Lagerfeld moved to Paris at the age of 14 and speaks fluently 4 languages (German, French, English and Italian).
  • Has his look-alike puppet in the French show "Guignols de l'info, Les" (1988).
  • Said on "Larry King Live" (1985) that he stopped celebrating his birthdays when he turned 30.

 Karl Lagerfeld Detailed Biography
Karl (Otto) Lagerfeld (born September 10, 1938 (according to some sources 1933) in Hamburg, Germany) is widely recognized as one of the most influential fashion designers of the late 20th century. He made his name as an independent creator who collaborated with a variety of different fashion labels, including Chloe, Fendi and Chanel. In the early 1980s he set up his own label, called Lagerfeld, which launched perfumes and clothing lines. He has also played a role in equipping leading artists. His father, Christian Lagerfeld, was a member of a Swedish merchant-banking family and made his fortune introducing condensed milk to Germany. His mother, Elizabeth, was German. Lagerfeld was their only child, born 10 years after the couple's marriage, when his mother was 42 and his father 60. He has several half-siblings from his parents' previous marriages. Karl Lagerfeld emigrated to Paris at the age of 14. In 1955, at the age of 17, Lagerfeld was awarded a position at Pierre Balmain, after winning a competition sponsored by the International Wool Secretariat. In the early 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 shower-dress, with beaded water streaming down the front; a car-dress with a radiator grille and fender, and a multitude of outstandingly eccentric hats. Lagerfeld was the target of a pieing by PETA in 2001 at a fashion premier at the Lincoln Center of New York City. In 2004 he designed some outfits for the international music artist's Madonna Re-Invention Tour, and recently designed outfits for Kylie Minogue's Showgirls Tour. Recently, Lagerfeld collaborated with the international Swedish fashion brand H&M. On the 12 November 2004 H&M offered a limited range of different clothes in chosen outlets for both women and men. Only two days after having supplied their outlets, H&M announced that all clothes were almost sold out. Lagerfeld has expressed he does not fear working with lower-end brands will taint his image. He is also a photographer and produced Visionaire 23: The Emperor's New Clothes: a series of nude pictures of South African model David Miller. Lagerfeld is currently the chief executive of design at the House of Chanel.

Lagerfeld is also famous for a dramatic transformation of his body, when he lost around 36 kg (80 pounds) in one year. “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 eighty pounds. 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.

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