Name
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Lagerfeld, Karl
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Other names
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Karl Otto Lagerfeldt
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Dates & places of birth and death
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Born September 10, 1933 in Hamburg, Germany
Died February 19, 2019 in Paris, France
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Nationality
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German
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Places of residence
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Lived in Hamburg, Germany with family and moved to Paris, France at the age of 14 years old
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Role
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Designer
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Occupation
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1957: He became art director for fashion designer Jean Patou.
1962: He became one of the first freelancers in the modern fashion industry, working between France, Italy, England and Germany.
1965: He began working for Fendi; their collaboration has continued to the present day.
1964: He began working with Chloé.
1975: He became the first fashion designer to introduce a perfume, CHLOÉ, without having his own label.
1983: He was named art director of the house of Chanel.
1984: He created his own fashion house, KARL LAGERFELD, while continuing his collaborations with Chanel and Fendi.
1987: He moved behind the lens to start shooting his own campaigns. He has since become renowned for his work as a photographer, and many of his images have been transformed into art books, published by Steidl.
1992: He created 60 colorful illustrations for the classic fairy tale The Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans Christian Anderson.
1999: He opened a bookshop in Paris, called 7L. A year later, he also became a publisher with the launch of the EDITIONS 7L publishing house, which specializes in books about visual knowledge and photography.
2000: He changed his look and redefined his image after losing 42 kilograms (93 lbs) with a self-imposed diet. A book, The 3D Diet, was published about the experience shortly thereafter; it sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide.
2004: He was the first designer in the world to be asked by fashion giant H&M to collaborate on a capsule collection of 30 pieces.
2008: His name was added to Le Petit Larousse Illustré, France’s most iconic dictionary.
2010: He received the Couture Council Fashion Visionary Award from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York.
2012: He became a monthly contributor of bespoke caricature sketches to F.A.Z, a supplement of the Frankfurter Allgemein Zeitung newspaper in Germany.
2016: At the request of choreographer and director Benjamin Millepied, he designed the costumes for the Brahms-Schönberg Quartet production at the Opéra Bastille in Paris.
2017: He designed two spectacular suites in the iconic Hôtel de Crillon in Paris. He was also named recipient of the "Outstanding Achievement Award" at the British Fashion Awards and the John B. Fairchild Award by WWD.
2018: He collaborated with international model, Kaia Gerber, to introduce the KARL LAGERFELD X KAIA collection. He also designed a 6-star, 290-room hotel in Macau.
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Education
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Lycee Montaigne in Paris, France
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Titles & Honors
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Honors:
1954: He won first prize in a contest organized by the Secrétariat International de la Laine (International Wool Association), for a sketch of a coat. The coat was produced by Pierre Balmain who offered Karl Lagerfeld, then 17, a job as his assistant.
2008: His name was added to Le Petit Larousse Illustré, France’s most iconic dictionary.
2010: He received the Couture Council Fashion Visionary Award from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York.
2017: . He was named recipient of the "Outstanding Achievement Award" at the British Fashion Awards and the John B. Fairchild Award by WWD.
Titles: Designer, Creative Director, Entrepreneur, business man, icon, illustration, photography, styling, and publishing
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Relationships
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He had an 18-year relationship with the French aristocrat, model, and socialite Jacques de Bascher (1951-1989)
Art director for fashion designer Jean Patou
Chloe - Designer
Fendi - Creative Director
Chanel - Creative/Art Director
H&M - collaboration
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Publications
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Book: Lagerfeld is famous for having lost a lot of weight and bringing out a diet book, The Karl Lagerfeld Diet. He lost 90lbs on a diet which included eating tuna and blackberry mousse. He said "I think that fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight." He also revealed that dieting isn't any fun: "You have to be a real bore like me for it to work."
Websites:
https://www.karl.com/experience/us/biography/
https://www.biography.com/fashion-designer/karl-lagerfeld
https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/karl-lagerfeld
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