Karl Lagerfeld
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76 years old
Paris
France
Last Login: 9/17/2007
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Hometown: | Hamburg, Germany | | Body type: | Slim / Slender | | Zodiac Sign: | Virgo | | Occupation: | Creative Director | | Income: | $250,000 and Higher |
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Karl Lagerfeld 's Companies
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Chanel
Paris, FR
Creative Director
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1982 - Present
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Lagerfeld
Paris, FR
CEO & Creative Director
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1980 - Present
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K Karl Lagerfeld
Paris, FR
CEO & Creative Director
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2006 - Present
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About me:
Karl Lagerfeld was born as the only child of Christian and Elizabeth Lagerfeld in 1933 in Hamburg, Germany. His father 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 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. A Catholic baptismal record indicates his birth date as 10 September 1933 but Lagerfeld states he was born in 1938. German birth records are not open to public inspection. The German newspaper Bild am Sonntag has quoted his former teacher and classmates as confirming the earlier date.
He made his name as an independent creator who collaborated with a variety of different fashion labels, including Chloé, 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.
Together with his mother, Karl Lagerfeld emigrated to Paris in 1953. In 1955, at the age of 22, Lagerfeld was awarded a position at Pierre Balmain, after winning a competition for a coat sponsored by the International Wool Secretariat. Yves Saint Laurent also won the contest for a dress award. "Yves was working for Dior. Other young people I knew were working for Balenciaga, whom they thought was God, but I wasn't so impressed," he recalled in 1976.
After three years he moved to Jean Patou. "I became bored there, too, and I quit and tried to go back to school, but that didn't work, so I spent two years mostly on beaches – I guess I studied life."
With money from his wealthy family, he set up a small shop in Paris. At this time, he would often consult with Madame Zereakian, Christian Dior's Turkish fortune teller. Lagerfeld later said, "She told me I'd succeed in fashion and perfume."
Since the 1970s, one of his associates has been Anna Piaggi, whom he has often sketched.
In 1982, Largerfeld took the position of chief executive of design at the House of Chanel, a position he still holds.
In the early 1990s he once employed strippers and the late Italian adult film star Moana Pozzi to model his black-and-white collection for Fendi and causing US Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour to stand up and leave the show.
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, along with Calvin Klein, was the target of a pieing by PETA in 2001 at a fashion premiere at Lincoln Center in 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 November 12, 2004, H&M offered a limited range of different Lagerfeld clothes in chosen outlets for both women and men. Only two days after having supplied its outlets, H&M announced that almost all the clothes were sold out. Lagerfeld has expressed a lack of fear that working with lower-end brands will taint his image, although in the past he has worked closely with the exclusive hosiery designer Wolford.
Lagerfeld is also a photographer. He produced Visionaire 23: The Emperor's New Clothes, a series of nude pictures of South African model David Miller.
The designer was also the subject of a French reality series called Signé Chanel in 2005. The show covered the creation of his Fall/Winter 2004-2005 Chanel couture collection. It aired on Sundance Channel in the United States during the fall of 2006.
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OPERAALTRA studio thanks for the add!
Thanx for the add. . .
Hello Karl!
Thank you so much for the add!
You are the great person!
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Merci pour l'ajout... Je suis un grand admirateur de votre travail, et un respect total pour votre personne... Avec toutes mes amitiés Monsieur Lagerfeld
A bientôt
Hallo Karl
vielen lieben Dank!!!
LG.Helena
thanks
I love you
and total respect!
Bonjour Karl,
Merci pour l'ajout.
J'espère que vous allez bien.
Je tenais juste à vous dire que vous êtes un génie et l'une des rares personnes à incarner la classe et l'élégance.
Thank you very much for the honor of adding u to my list of friends!
Thanx for add...you are the best...i am fashion disigner to :)
Great to be part of your friends!
oli x
Thank you for the add
good luck!
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Karl ; j’ai retrouvé des photos de la villa Noailles d’il y a 30 ans environs. Photos prisent par mon père. J’avais 5,6 ans et nous y jouions à cache-cache. L’état de la villa est son état avant rénovation ; c’est étonnant. Si tu veux je peux te les envoyer par mail. Kiss: Didier
kiss kiss
Thanx for the friendship and greatings from Italy.
Dany
Thank you Mister Lagerfeld,
You're a Master!
Bliss
Samuelle
Merci , c'est un honneur d être reçue " chez vous "
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Eny
Ciao Karl! Thank for the add!
Un grand merci M. Lagerfeld de m'avoir accepter dans vos "amis" virtuels... je suis un grand admirateur de votre travail...
Bonne continuation
merci :-)
Merci de Moi!! Thank you for the add. Love from San Francisco, USA! www.lesliefoley.com
Aaaahhhh, votre col de chemise...pas evident à porter, mais tellement classe!
KL
Good Sir, have yourself a weekend of creative abundance, filled with moments of clarity, serenity and the warmth of close friends, be well as ever...
DSH & SSK
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Je te remercie pour ta joue.
Big bénédictions from l'immaculée conception
bon week-end
If I could catch a rainbow I would do it just for you and share with you its beauty on the days you're feeling blue. If I could build a mountain you could call your very own; a place to find serenity, A place to be alone. If I could take your troubles I would toss them in the sea, But all these things I'm finding are impossible for me. I cannot build a mountain or catch a rainbow fair, but let me be what I know best, a friend who's always there.
"Do you know the relationship between your two eyes? They blink together, they move together, they cry together, they see things together and they sleep together BUT THEY NEVER SEE EACH OTHER... that's what friendship is. Your aspiration is your motivation, your motivation is your belief, your belief is your peace, your peace is your target, your target is heaven, and life is like hell without FRIENDS.
You really are a lovable person. God bless you!"