Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld , born Karl Lagerfeldt in Hamburg, the September 10th 1938 (or 1933), is a Styliste, dressmaker, Photographe and German editor . He is the artistic director very mediatized of the house of Haute couture Chanel since 1983.

Biography

September 10th, 1938 (or 1933), it is born with Hamburg in Germany. Wire of a Scandinavian father trading and of a German mother .

In 1952, old 19 years, it comes to work with Paris and simplifies its name then by removing T final. It gains the first price of the contest of the " International secretariat of the wool " organized by the mark Woolmark ex-æquo with Yves the St. Lawrence. The large dressmaker Pierre Balmain who belongs to the jury notices it and as assistant of 1953 with 1962 recruits it.

Of Pierre Balmain in Fendi

In 1959, it is named artistic director in the large dressmaker Jean Patou. Little time afterwards, it chooses to carry out a career of independent designer and successively to create collections of mode for the France, the Italy, the Germany and the Japan.

In 1963, Karl Lagerfeld creates and draws the Prêt-à-porter and the accessories of the mark of mode Chloé during twenty years until in 1983.

In 1965, it also works for the house Italy nne Fendi of Rome of which it invents celebrates it logo.

Chanel

In 1983, it is named artistic director for the whole of the collections haute couture, ready-made clothes and accessories of the Chanel house for which it has the full powerss.

It has in heart to perpetuate the spirit of the founder Styliste of the house Coco Chanel disappeared in 1971. In the Years 1980, it chooses the mannequin Ines of Fressange like egery for réincarner the image of Chanel. It is the first mannequin to sign a franchise agreement with a house in Haute couture and the first with becoming a star very mediatized and popular of the history of the mode. Its esthetics is based above all on contrasts white black/, which are also the colors at the base of the Chanel style.

De Chloé with H&M

In 1984, it creates with a relative success, its own house of ready-made clothes, the mark " Karl Lagerfeld " with the 144 Which occurred of the Fields-Élysées.

In 1991, it is again named artistic director at Chloé to regild the mark in full decline.

In 1998, it opens Lagerfeld Gallery, dedicated to photography.

In 2000, wanting to find its size of young man to enter very curved clothing that Hedi Slimane creates then for Dior Homme, it undertakes under the direction of Dr. Jean-Claude Houdret a draconian regime which will make him lose 42 kilos in thirteen months. They will draw from it a book best-seller, " The Best of the régimes".

In 2004, it creates an exclusive collection of ready-made clothes of 30 clothing for H&M. In certain shops, its collection is sold in a few minutes: it is an event.

With the wire of his career, the designer also signed several costumes for the world of art: opera (Scala of Milan, operated of Florence, ballets of Monte Carlo), but also cinema: one owes him the extravagant behaviors of the film Stiletto heels of Pedro Almodovar or those of Callas Forever Franco Zeffirelli.

In 2007, Karl Lagerfeld signs a new line K by Karl . This collection declines the smart Denim spirit in urban paces.

Beside the haute couture

2004 it draws for the Chanel House both stamps of St. Valentine's day emitted by La Poste Frenchwoman. (Stamp Chanel Saint Valentin)

In addition to being a dressmaker, Karl Lagerfeld, which says “professional dilettante”, also creates in the field of the Photographie. He is the photographer of all his campaigns of Publicité Chanel and publishes books of photography and Architecture (Villa Malaparte, Villa Noailles etc) but also in collaboration with Tadao Ando. He is in addition owner of the " bookstore 7L " and of a Publisher of the same name of 7 rue de Lille in the 7th district of Paris.

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