Karl Lagerfeld

A Life in Fashion

Alfons Kaiser

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9780500777305
• Topic: Design
• Subtopic: Fashion Design

A revelatory biography of Karl Lagerfeld, introducing readers to the public and private life of the charismatic designer Karl Lagerfeld lived a very public life. He shaped the Chanel and Fendi brands for decades, and his wit and wisdom amused and informed the world. Yet despite a massively public persona, his hinterland remained unknown. What is the truth behind this larger-than-life but enigmatic figure? The journalist and fashion specialist Alfons Kaiser met Lagerfeld on numerous occasions. He has now written the first authoritative biography on this fascinating character, whose life has always been marked by elements of secrecy. From his parents links with the Nazi regime to Lagerfelds last days in the company of only his closest friends, this book the result of unprecedented archival and field work divulges all the facets of a passionate artist and workaholic: the precocious boy who preferred to draw in the attic rather than play with his peers; the son who quarrelled with his parents but never got away from them; the competitor of Yves Saint Laurent, whom he outshone in the end; the brother, uncle, friend; and finally, the partner of Jacques de Bascher, the great love of his life.

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank: Marietta Andreae (Hamburg), Fritz Andresen (Freising), Nancy Antonelli (Palm Beach Gardens), Sybille Baumbach (Hamburg), Peter Bermbach (Paris), Claudia Bessler (Frankfurt), Sylvia Blankenburg (Neustadt in Holstein), Rainer Blasius (Munich), Peter W. Boveleth (Hünxe), Detlev Brandt (Berlin), Ruth Brandt (Schmallenberg), Hans-Joachim Bronisch (Bad Bramstedt), Michael Bührke (Münster), Paul Caranicas (New York), Yavidan Castillo (Paris), Stefan Clauser (Beckum), Caroline Cnocquaert (Paris), Corinna Cramer-Feuerbach (Berlin), Godfrey Deeny (Paris), Barbara Dieudonné (Dortmund), Victoire Doutreleau (Paris), Markus Ebner (Paris), Lars Eidinger (Berlin), Ulla Ertelt (Frankfurt), Silvia Fendi (Rome), Leonie Feuerbach (Frankfurt), Stephan Finsterbusch (Frankfurt), Helmut Fricke (Frankfurt), Christel Friedrichs (Bad Bramstedt), Claudia Frobenius (Hamburg), Michel Gaubert (Paris), Christine Gensmantel (Frankfurt), Nicola Gerber Maramotti (Reggio Emilia), Baptiste Giabiconi (Paris), Tan Giudicelli (Paris), Inga Griese (Berlin), Rose-Maria Gropp (Frankfurt), Michael Haentjes (Hamburg), Maria Hagedorn (Beckum), Philippe Heurtault (Paris), Wolfgang Hölker (Münster), Manfred Jacobsen (Bad Bramstedt), Sylvia Jahrke (Hitzhusen), Sébastien Jondeau (Paris), Karin Joop-Metz (Potsdam), Wolfgang Joop (Potsdam), Donna Jordan (New York), Elfriede von Jouanne (Hagen), Thomas Karlauf (Berlin), Peter Kempe (Saint-Rémy-de-Provence), Marina Krauth (Hamburg), Catherine Kujawski (Paris), Günter Lagerfeld (Henstedt-Ulzburg), Wilhelm Lange (Neustadt in Holstein), Sophie de Langlade (Paris), Caroline Lebar (Paris), Rosemarie Le Gallais (Paris), Hervé Le Masson (Paris), Heidelore Litty (Lübeck), Julia Löhr (Berlin), Stefan Lubrina (Paris), Inge Ludwig (Neumünster), Laura Lusuardi (Reggio Emilia), Philippe Morillon (Paris), Eckhard Müller (Münster), Jürgen Müller (Munich), Tina Müller (Düsseldorf), Clara Munch (Paris), Sarah Obertreis (Frankfurt), Christopher Pfleiderer (Baden-Baden), Stéphanie Primet (Paris), Matthias Prinz (Hamburg), Adelheid Rasche (Nürnberg), Ariel de Ravenel (Paris), Alexandra von Rehlingen (Hamburg), Patricia Riekel (Munich), Sandra Riggs-Schnakenbourg (Paris), Warren Riggs (Los Angeles), Pier Paolo Righi (Amsterdam), Carine Roitfeld (Paris), Melanie Christina Röttig (Hamburg), Evelyn Rumstedt (Hamburg), Ursula Scheube (Berlin), Claudia Schiffer (London), Anke Schipp (Frankfurt), Peter-Philipp Schmitt (Frankfurt), Donald Schneider (Berlin), Thoma Schulenburg (Hamburg), Alexandra Schumacher (Munich), Stefanie Schütte (Hamburg), Hans Wilhelm Seyfrid (Hamburg), Andrei Sidorov (Vladivostok), Miles Socha (Paris), Géraldine-Julie Sommier (Paris), Gerhard Steidl (Göttingen), Bernd Steinle (Frankfurt), Rudolf Stratmann (Münster), Hans-Josef Susenburger (Frankfurt), Werner Thiele (Holm), Gloria von Thurn und Taxis (Regensburg), Corey Grant Tippin (New York), Céline Toledano (Paris), Ralph Toledano (Paris), Gordian Tork (Palm Beach Gardens), Daniela Tran (Paris), Ashley...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• About the Author
• Other Titles of Interest
• Contents
• In Loving Memory
• Prologue
• 1933 to 1951
• 1952 to 1982
• 1983 to 1999
• 2000 to 2019
• Legacy
• Appendix
• Copyright