Karl Lagerfeld agerfeld was born in Hamburg. He has he UPI noted: «The firm›s brand new designer, design collaboration with Roman Haute Couture on a special denim collection for the Lagerfeld Lclaimed he was born in 1938, to Elisabeth T25-year old Roland Karl, showed a collection house Curiel (the designer, a woman named Gallwwery. The collection, which was titled (born Bahlman) and his Swedish father Otto which stressed shape and had no trace of last Gigliola Curiel, died in November 1969.) His first Lagerfeld Gallery by Diesel, was co-designed by Lagerfeldt. He is known to insist that no one year›s sack.» The reporter went on to say that collection was described as having a “drippy Lagerfeld and then developed by Diesel›s Creative knows his real birth date: interviewed on French «A couple of short black cocktail dresses were drapey elegance” designed for a “1930s cinema Team, under the supervision of Rosso. It consisted television in February 2009, Lagerfeld said that he cut so wide open at the front that even some queen” The Curiel mannequins all wore identical, of five pieces that were presented during the was “born neither in 1933 nor 1938.” In April 2013 of the women reporters gasped. Other cocktail short-cropped blonde wigs. He also showed designer’s catwalk shows during Paris Fashion he finally declared that he was born in 1935. A and evening dresses feature low, low-cut black velvet shorts, to be worn under a black Week and then sold in very strict limited editions birth announcement was however published by backs.» Most interestingly, Karl said that his velvet ankle-length cape. at the Lagerfeld Galleries in Paris and Monaco, his parents in 1933, and the baptismal register in design silhouette for the season was called by the and at the Diesel Denim Galleries in New York and Hamburg also lists him as born in 1933. His older letter «K» (for Karl), which was translated into a is Chloe collection for Spring 1973 (shown in Tokyo. During the first week of sales in New York, sister, Martha Christiane (a.k.a. Christel), was straight line in front, curved in at the waist in the HOctober 1972) garnered headlines for offering more than 90% of the trousers had already been born in 1931. Lagerfeld also has an older half- back, with a low fullness to the skirt. something both “high fashion and high camp.” sold out, even though prices ranged from as high sister, Thea, from his father’s first marriage. His He showed loose Spencer jackets and printed silk as $240 to $1,840. In a statement after the show original name was Lagerfeldt (with a «t»), but he is skirts for the spring 1960 season were shirt jackets. He designed something he called a in Paris, Rosso said “I am honored to have met this later changed it to Lagerfeld as «it sounds more Hthe shortest in Brisbane, and the collection “surprise” skirt, which was ankle-length, pleated fashion icon of our time. Karl represents creativity, commercial.» was not well received. Carrie Donovan said it silk, so loose that it hid the fact it was actually tradition and challenge, and the fact that he “looked like clever and immensely salable ready- pants. “It seems that wearing these skirts is an thought of Diesel for this collaboration is a great agerfeld grew up as the son of a wealthy to-wear, not couture.” In his late 1960 collection extraordinary sensation,” he told a reporter at the gift and acknowledgement of our reputation as Lbusinessman from Sweden who was he designed special little hats, pancake shaped time. He also designed a look inspired by Carmen theprêt-à-porter of casual wear.». introducing condensed milk. His family was mainly circles of satin, which hung on the cheek. He called Miranda, which consisted of mini bra dresses with shielded from the deprivations of World War them “slaps in the face.” Karl’s collection were said very short skirts, and long dresses with bra tops agerfeld designed the costumes for II due to his father›s business interests in Germany to be well received, but not groundbreaking. “I and scarf shawls. Lthe Carmen sequences in the 2002 film Callas (Glücksklee-Milch GmbH).[11][12] His mother is from became bored there, too, and I quit and tried to Forever. In 2004, he designed some outfits for the Berlin; according to Alicia Drake,[vague]she was a go back to school, but that didn’t work, so I spent n 1972, he began to collaborate with Italian international music artist Madonna, for her Re- lingerie saleswoman there when she met her two years mostly on beaches – I guess I studied Ifashion house Fendi, designing furs, clothing and Invention tour, and recently designed outfits husband and married him in 1930. life.”’ In 1963, he began designing forTiziani, a accessories. for Kylie Minogue’s Showgirl tour. Roman couture house founded that year by Evan tarting in the 1970s, Lagerfeld has occasionally fter attending a private school, Lagerfeld Richards (b. 1924) of Jacksboro, Texas. It began agerfeld collaborated with the international worked as a costume designer for theatrical Afinished his secondary school at the Lycée as couture and then branched out into ready-to- S LSwedish fashion brand H&M. On 12 November productions. He collaborated with stage directors Montaigne in Paris, where he majored in drawing wear, bearing the label “Tiziani-Roma – Made in 2004, H&M offered a limited range of different such as Luca Ronconi and Jürgen Flimm, and and history. England.” Lagerfeld and Richards sketched the first Lagerfeld clothes in chosen outlets for both designed for theatres like La Scala in Milan (Les collection in 1963 together. “When they wound women and men. Only two days after having Troyens by Hector Berlioz, 1980; directed by up with 90 outfits, Tiziani threw caution and supplied its outlets, H&M announced that almost Ronconi), the Burgtheater in Vienna (Komödie der invitations to the winds, borrowed Catherine the all the clothes were sold out. Lagerfeld has arly career Verführung by Arthur Schnitzler, 1980; directed Great’s jewels from Harry Winston, and opened expressed some fear that working with lower- E by Horst Zankl), and theSalzburg Festival (Der agerfeld was hired as Pierre his salon with a three-night wingding,” according end brands will taint his image, although in the Schwierige by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 1990; Balmain’s assistant after winning the coats to one report in 1969. Lagerfeld designed for the past he has worked closely with the hosiery L directed by Flimm). category in a design competition sponsored by company until 1969. Elizabeth Taylor was a fan of designer Wolford. the International Wool Secretariat in 1955. In the label (she referred to Evan as «Evan Tiziani”) agerfeld at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival agerfeld is also a photographer. He 1958, after three years at Balmain, he moved and began wearing it in August 1966. Gina L produced Visionaire 23: The Emperor’s to Jean Patou where he designed two haute Lollobrigida, Doris Duke and Principessa L t the time, he had also been maintaining New Clothes, a series of nude pictures of couture collections a year for five years. His first Borghese were also customers while Lagerfeld Aa design contract with the Japanese models and celebrities. He also personally collection was shown in a two-hour presentation was designing the line. He was replaced in 1969 firm Isetan, to create collections for both men and photographed Mariah Carey for the cover in July 1958, but he used the name Roland Karl, with Guy Douvier. women through 30 licenses; had a lingerie line in of V magazine in 2005. In addition to his editorial rather than Karl Lagerfeld (although in 1962, the US, produced by Eve Stillmann; was designing work for Harper’s Bazaar, Numéro and the reporters began referring to him as Karl Lagerfelt agerfeld had begun to freelance for French shoes for Charles Jourdan, sweaters for Ballantyne, Russian and German editions of Vogue, Lagerfeld or Karl Logerfeld). The first collection was poorly Lfashion house Chloé in 1964, at first designing and worked with Trevira as a fashion adviser. photographs advertising campaigns for the received. Carrie Donovan wrote that «the press a few pieces a season. As more and more pieces houses under his direction (Chanel, Fendi and his booed the collection”. were incorporated, he would soon design the n 2002, Karl Lagerfeld asked Renzo Rosso, the entire collection. In 1970, he also began a brief Ifounder of Diesel, to collaborate with him eponymous line) every season.

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