“He who wears Jogging pants has lost control of his life.” Thus, a well-known phrase “Charles the Great”. Now the Fashion icon has died at 85 years of age – and not just the fashion world is in mourning.
The Hamburg-born Karl Lagerfeld has shaped the fashion world for decades. For 36 years he was creative Director of the Parisian fashion house of Chanel. In addition, he was also part of the Italian fashion house Fendi and his own namesake Label design chief. We have collected reactions to the death of the “Emperor Charles”.
Claudia Schiffer: “What Warhol was to art, he was for the fashion”
In 1988, over 30 years ago, entered Claudia Schiffer for the first Time, the catwalk for Chanel. The subsequent Supermodel (in the image above is a recording of 2007) has been supported from the beginning by Lagerfeld. The fashion guru has described her as his Muse and remained in it until his death. “Karl has transformed me, with the magic hand of a shy German girl into a Supermodel,” says Schiffer in a first reaction after the announcement of the death of their great promoter of the online service Instagram. “He taught me everything about fashion and style – and how to survive in this Business. What Warhol was to art, he was for the fashion. Karl Lagerfeld is irreplaceable. He was the only Person who could Black and White make it colorful. I will be forever grateful.”
Wolfgang Joop
In contrast to his “ex-best friend, Yves Saint Laurent, the emotions, longings and drugs”, have imposed Lagerfeld is a personal discipline, said the German Designer Wolfgang Joop the editorial network in Germany. “He was a man, a man who has done infinitely much.” Lagerfeld’s “incredible power Output” has been “almost frightening”. Its great success to have paid Lagerfeld but also with the limitations of his personal life, Joop. “Fashion is a dangerous Planet, just for narcissistic personalities, how many of us there are,” said Joop. “On this Planet, Karl Lagerfeld, the king.”
Wolfgang Joop: “Lagerfeld was one of the first Europeans”
Joop described Lagerfeld as a European bridge-Builder: “He is gone with the age of 16 to Paris and has managed to beat a German-French bridge and became a European figure,” the Designer says. The German Minister of state for Europe, Michael Roth, condolences on Twitter in a similar direction: The fashion designer had done “probably more for the German-French relations than many politicians”.
France’s interior Minister Christophe Castaner said the radio station RTL, with Lagerfeld, the world will lose “a huge personality, someone outside of the Ordinary”. In front of the Chanel Boutique in Paris Rue Cambon death numerous Fans, including a fashion student from the vicinity of Hamburg gathered together to become aware of Lagerfeld’s. You put a white Rose in front of the shop and a map on the stand: “Big thanks to the greatest masters of fashion. A Pride for Germany and France.”
Peter Tschentscher: “Lagerfeld was an Ambassador of Hamburg”
Hamburg’s first mayor, Peter Tschentscher (SPD), said that his city was losing “an exceptional team and an Ambassador of Hamburg”. In the Hanseatic city of Lagerfeld was born. There Chanel had confirmed the death of its creative leaders also officially.
Guido Maria Kretschmer
The German fashion designer and TV-moderator Guido Maria Kretschmer was “deeply saddened by the death of Karl Lagerfeld. He had been a “unique personality” that will leave a “huge gap in the lives of many people, and especially in the world of fashion”. Both had experienced “a wonderful evenings together,” which would always remain in memory. “It was and is a great honor for me to have Karl Lagerfeld met.”
Bernard Arnault, head of luxury goods conglomerate LVMH, called Lagerfeld a “great inspiration”. The Italian fashion group Fendi said, Lagerfeld’s influence on the fortunes of the company had been “immense”. In addition to the fashion books were the biggest passion of the fashion designer: In the Cafés and bookshops of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, he is supplied regularly with new reading material, especially with picture books about fashion and art as well as poems. In the end, he had a collection of around 300,000 copies. The Frankfurt book fair condolences to the Buchfan Lagerfeld.
For the German fashion designer Harald Glööckler, Karl Lagerfeld was “one of the most influential designers of the 20th century. Century”. He had the fashion house Chanel once again breathed life into and brought it to new heights, so Glööckler in an interview with Deutsche Welle.
The Style of Harald Glööckler
“In my eyes, Coco was Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld, the second Arm of Chanel.” He had interpreted the tradition in the sense of its founder, the time referred to in by he had set Trends and standards in Design and Aesthetics. According to the French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent (in 2008, died in Paris) die with Lagerfeld also “a large piece of Haute Couture”, so Glööckler. Especially Lagerfeld was a passionate eccentric, with all its corners and edges. This is very important in a time in which more and more people wanted custom Mainstream. To be “distinctive, is the A and O whether other find stupid, is does not matter,” Glööckler, the fashion itself is extremely extravagant and eye-catching.
The German Satire Website “The postilion,” not paid tribute to Lagerfeld’s merits in the world of fashion in their own way: “God is nervous because he knows what Outfit he is to receive Karl Lagerfeld”, it said.