He has been designing for 30 years, collections for Chanel, photographed fashion shoots, think of all the advertising campaigns, collects a mass of books. To summarize, Karl Lagerfeld, is hardly possible. An attempt to 85.
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Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion artist
It started with a coat
The Bonn exhibition with the title “Lagerfeld. Fashion method” (up to 13. September) want to think, the artistic Director rein Wolfs, “the creative power in the foreground, the work of a great designer, the women, on paper and fabrics.” The Show begins with Lagerfeld’s card entry in the world of fashion: a replica of a jacket, the Lagerfeld in 1954 won a contest.
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Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion artist
The fashion guru as the paper freak
“I always have to feel paper under my fingers, so I can Express myself,” says Lagerfeld about his passion for his favorite working material. Paper determined Lagerfeld’s life: for his fashion designs, his photographs, notes, letters and books. Self his Shows, he plans on the sketch block. And so, too, his Desk speaks volumes.
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Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion artist
From the archives
Alone in Fendi archive of over 40,000 Lagerfeld-drawings. Some of them now hang in Bonn, as well sketches for Chloé and Chanel. Posters of Lagerfeld’s ad campaigns are also seen, as a group, they have adorned the walls of the exhibition hall, which are held in a grey concrete Look. A subtle backdrop for Lagerfeld’s creations.
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Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion artist
The Renovator
For 50 years, Lagerfeld was working for the Italian Label Fendi. When he started in 1965, there to cards the first step is the fur fashion. From the then usual tons of heavy fur coats, he creates playful and crazy models that no longer surrounded by their makers, such as tanks, but loose and easy around them flutter. To do this, he designs for Fendi timeless fashion and accessories.
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Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion artist
Accessorized!
Shoes and handbags – what drives many women to tears of delight in the eye, bring many a man more to despair. Not Karl Lagerfeld. He brings to every collection, the matching accessories, the exhibition displays 120 pieces of full selection (in the image: Fendi). For Chanel, he has in addition to shoes, bags and belts, also designed 177 buttons.
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Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion artist
The mirror of time
In the case of Chloé, Lagerfeld shows his sense for what many women want from fashion. Playful, airy, and romantic, the dresses from the 1970s. Other models he provides, with graphic Patterns. Silk is the preferred fabric. The doll is wearing a hand-painted silk dress from 1973.
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Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion artist
Time for music
The time of the wild Parties in the famous New York Club “Studio 54” inspired Lagerfeld to funny motifs. In this satin dress from 1983, he is comparing the woman’s body with a violin consistently. This dress is, like almost all other 120 Looks in the Bonn exhibition, from the archives of fashion houses, some models even works on loan from other museums.
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Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion artist
Makeover for Chanel
As Karl Lagerfeld in 1983, comes to Chanel, he missed the slightly dusty fashion brand is a Fresh cure. He brings the classic to new life, gives the costumes in new colors and modified the cuts. Skirts are getting shorter, the jackets are longer, he uses other substances. And already the brand is also worn again by young women. This costume is from 1991.
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Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion artist
If of wool, Haute Couture is
The costume from gepaspeltem Tweed, invented by Coco Chanel, is and remains a classic. In the series “Evolution of Tweed” shows Lagerfeld, what you can make out of this something old-fashioned-looking fabric. The Tweed costumes, long fringes get, the hem in delicate, transparent fabric or simply pierces.
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Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion artist
Palace made of paper
At fashion shows the Best for last: The Haute Couture. The king class, in the Couturiers present their masterpieces, custom-made items, may be the six-digit sums of value. This is the most expensive of all fashionable game types also forms the climax of the exhibition: A Designer Trio created the paper Palace – a worthy site for the luxury robes from Chanel.
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Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion artist
Wetsuit
The last piece of the exhibition is at the same time, the Recent and comes from the autumn/Winter collection 2014-2015. A wedding dress for Pregnant women. The Gag is not the Gold-embroidered Train, but the fabric: neoprene. A funny end to a show that Lagerfeld’s use of color and Material, the continuity of his oeuvre and his influence on the fashion world focused.
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Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion artist
It started with a coat
The Bonn exhibition with the title “Lagerfeld. Fashion method” (up to 13. September) want to think, the artistic Director rein Wolfs, “the creative power in the foreground, the work of a great designer, the women, on paper and fabrics.” The Show begins with Lagerfeld’s card entry in the world of fashion: a replica of a jacket, the Lagerfeld in 1954 won a contest.
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Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion artist
The fashion guru as the paper freak
“I always have to feel paper under my fingers, so I can Express myself,” says Lagerfeld about his passion for his favorite working material. Paper determined Lagerfeld’s life: for his fashion designs, his photographs, notes, letters and books. Self his Shows, he plans on the sketch block. And so, too, his Desk speaks volumes.
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Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion artist
From the archives
Alone in Fendi archive of over 40,000 Lagerfeld-drawings. Some of them now hang in Bonn, as well sketches for Chloé and Chanel. Posters of Lagerfeld’s ad campaigns are also seen, as a group, they have adorned the walls of the exhibition hall, which are held in a grey concrete Look. A subtle backdrop for Lagerfeld’s creations.
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Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion artist
The Renovator
For 50 years, Lagerfeld was working for the Italian Label Fendi. When he started in 1965, there to cards the first step is the fur fashion. From the then usual tons of heavy fur coats, he creates playful and crazy models that no longer surrounded by their makers, such as tanks, but loose and easy around them flutter. To do this, he designs for Fendi timeless fashion and accessories.
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Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion artist
Accessorized!
Shoes and handbags – what drives many women to tears of delight in the eye, bring many a man more to despair. Not Karl Lagerfeld. He brings to every collection, the matching accessories, the exhibition displays 120 pieces of full selection (in the image: Fendi). For Chanel, he has in addition to shoes, bags and belts, also designed 177 buttons.
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Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion artist
The mirror of time
In the case of Chloé, Lagerfeld shows his sense for what many women want from fashion. Playful, airy, and romantic, the dresses from the 1970s. Other models he provides, with graphic Patterns. Silk is the preferred fabric. The doll is wearing a hand-painted silk dress from 1973.
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Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion artist
Time for music
The time of the wild Parties in the famous New York Club “Studio 54” inspired Lagerfeld to funny motifs. In this satin dress from 1983, he is comparing the woman’s body with a violin consistently. This dress is, like almost all other 120 Looks in the Bonn exhibition, from the archives of fashion houses, some models even works on loan from other museums.
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Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion artist
Makeover for Chanel
As Karl Lagerfeld in 1983, comes to Chanel, he missed the slightly dusty fashion brand is a Fresh cure. He brings the classic to new life, gives the costumes in new colors and modified the cuts. Skirts are getting shorter, the jackets are longer, he uses other substances. And already the brand is also worn again by young women. This costume is from 1991.
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Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion artist
If of wool, Haute Couture is
The costume from gepaspeltem Tweed, invented by Coco Chanel, is and remains a classic. In the series “Evolution of Tweed” shows Lagerfeld, what you can make out of this something old-fashioned-looking fabric. The Tweed costumes, long fringes get, the hem in delicate, transparent fabric or simply pierces.
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Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion artist
Palace made of paper
At fashion shows the Best for last: The Haute Couture. The king class, in the Couturiers present their masterpieces, custom-made items, may be the six-digit sums of value. This is the most expensive of all fashionable game types also forms the climax of the exhibition: A Designer Trio created the paper Palace – a worthy site for the luxury robes from Chanel.
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Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion artist
Wetsuit
The last piece of the exhibition is at the same time, the Recent and comes from the autumn/Winter collection 2014-2015. A wedding dress for Pregnant women. The Gag is not the Gold-embroidered Train, but the fabric: neoprene. A funny end to a show that Lagerfeld’s use of color and Material, the continuity of his oeuvre and his influence on the fashion world focused.
The age of the guesswork begins. Karl Lagerfeld is to this 10. September 80-year-old, 83 or 85? He was at a 10. September born? He didn’t even know it, his birth certificate was burned during the bombardment of Hamburg’s district Altona, he tells the tabloid journalist Paul Sahner in the Interview that accompanied the fashion guru for 15 years, and close to him was like no other. But quite apart from that, bored him the question about his age. It was “absolutely sausage”. “I feel young so or so”.
While Lagerfeld himself indicates, in the meantime, in 1935 as year of his birth – it was the year 1938 – suggest excerpts from the Hamburg parish register, as well as a birth announcement, that he saw already in 1933, the light of the world.
From a good home
Inside Karl Lagerfeld is born in a wealthy family. The father was a manufacturer of canned milk, and lives with his wife, Karl Lagerfeld, and his sister in the Hamburg district of Blankenese. Aristocrats, pretty villas and well-kept parks that surround the young Karl. As Hamburg is bombed in July 1944, the family on your Well in Schleswig-Holstein. There, on the Land, he spends most of his Childhood, his origin, his sense for unusual clothes and for the conditions of the long hair between the simple peasant children.
Even his house cat is a Model and Social Media Star: Karl Lagerfeld with “Choupette”
Even otherwise, the small Karl is quite extraordinary: Even before his Training, he learns English and French; in the attic he tries for hours, the drawings from the Simplicissimus imitate; during his Hamburg time he goes instead of in the school rather in the Kunsthalle, where he is fascinated by the French painters: “in My case, everything that was French was. I wanted to and because I wanted to go, and that’s why I learned French as a child, otherwise I would not be able to go to school,” he tells filmmaker Gero von Boehm in the documentation of “Germany, your artists – Karl Lagerfeld” (2014).
Paris – the Mecca for young fashion designers
Over the years, the desire for Paris is going to be getting bigger and bigger. A Dior Look, which he attended in 1950 in Hamburg, sealed the decision final. In 1953, he and his mother to pull.
For the budding Couturier is the fashion capital of the Its exactly the Right thing. Without detours, it goes uphill for him there steep.
With just 20 years, he covered with a coat draft for first place in a fashion competition. Even Yves Saint Laurent is taking part, but ends up only on the third rank.
The yellow coat in the exhibition “Karl Lagerfeld. Fashion Method”, Federal Art Hall In Bonn
A few years later, he must start at Pierre Balmain and Jean Patou, proves, and, in 1963, for the first time as Artistic Director: At Chloé, he is now setting new Trends, founded in 1967 about the “Total Look”, the unit of clothing and accessories. Also Fendi in Rome like what the young Designer from Germany created and bound him in the mid-1960s for his fur – and leather collection.
In 1976, Lagerfeld is famous for its Dandy Look. As the preferred styles, as he calls the 18. Century and the Art Deco movement. Until today, his distinctive clothing style, the braid, the he in the Rest of the powders, and the dark sunglasses his trademark.
Karl Lagerfeld Fashion Show in Paris, 1983
“Browse, read, in front of me right daydream”
If Karl Lagerfeld isn’t working on new designs, so he goes into the cafes and bookstores of Saint-Germain-des-Près. Several books he buys there every week. In addition to fashion, you are his greatest passion. In the meantime, he has a collection of around 300,000 copies, including picture books about fashion and art, but also poetry, because he is reading is preferred. “My favorite weekend is when I can look at my books, which I bought in the week,” says the fashion guru. “Scroll and read, make notes, in between, in front of me right daydream, draw, and sleep, and don’t know how late it is!”
New coat of paint for Chanel
In 1983, Lagerfeld is no longer land the big Coup: Chanel, fashion technically, at the time, quite on the pulse of the time, makes Karl to his creative Director. The, ambitious as he is, it creates the Haute Couture and Prêt-à-porter collections of modern appear and make the fashion house also for younger women attractive. He uses new colors, modified the sections, working with other materials. Chanel without it? Meanwhile, unimaginable. Even today, Lagerfeld is the chief designer.
However, the entry in the famous tradition, the house does not seem to meet the fashion Creator. In 1984, he founded his own Label, “Karl Lagerfeld”, the now everything from men about women and children’s fashion and accessories. Just recently he has said there is a collection with the 17-year-old Kaia Gerber, Model and daughter of Cindy Crawford, is brought out. You’ll bring a “fresh, Cool-Girl Touch in Karls effortless classics,” it says on the Homepage. The man knows how marketing works.
Lagerfeld, the Jack of all trades
Since 1987 Lagerfeld photographed himself, thinks of advertising campaigns, and turning short corporate films for various fashion of. He constantly seeks new challenges, whether it be to design a Hotel in China or to set up a book publishing company. “The rest, what you did, because you can wrap it right away,” he says in his usual dry manner in the documentation of “Germany, your artists”.
Karl Lagerfeld in Paris, 2018
A setback he suffered in 1989, when his life Jacques de Basher companion dies of Aids. Lagerfeld is increasing rapidly and plunges into even more work. He created several collections under his own name and opened in Paris, “Lagerfeld Gallery”, the fashion salon, and a photo gallery at the same time.
In 2000, he decided to change his eating habits and proves to have an iron will. After only 13 months Lagerfeld has lost 42 pounds. He wanted to fit in the slim-fitting Dior suits by Hedi Slimane, he tells Paul Sahner.
Lagerfeld, the critic
Karl Lagerfeld is known for his open words known: In a French TV show of the fashion designers criticized the German refugee policy. The Muslim refugees to be enemies of the Jews, said the 84-Year-old last year. In the case of the decision, in 2015, around one Million refugees into the country, with Chancellor Angela Merkel “suddenly, the pastor’s daughter came,” said the fashion designer in the show “Salut les Terriens” of the channel C8. On the question of the host whether this decision should be seen against the Background of the Second world war and Germany’s role in the Greece crisis as an Image of care, replied in the affirmative Lagerfeld and announced, now, to tell you something Terrible: “You can’t kill millions of Jews and, even if decades apart, later, millions of your worst enemies to the country.” A few months later, he was again critical of the German refugee policy, and threatened with the return of his German citizenship.
Lagerfeld, a total work of art
Its slim line, he has kept until today. Also his Look of tight-fitting pants, jacket, shirt with stand-up collar, ponytail, sunglasses, gloves and rings, he remained faithful. His statements pointed are resourceful and provocative as ever. Only the Beard is new.
Karl Lagerfeld is a total work of art, “abstraction”, as he once said of himself. He is full of contradictions: it is vain and imperious on the one side, and proves self-irony and warm-heartedness on the other. To its – probably – 85. Birthday, we wish him all the best!