Karl Lagerfeld was a dream to observe, a spiky king of reinvention and a master of modern fashion

When Karl Lagerfeld was born in Germany to a wealthy industrialist family in 1934, his mother Elizabeth, a lapsed Protestant who had been told by a fortune-teller that her son would become a bishop, promptly forbade him from stepping inside a church when he was growing up.

Karl Lagerfeld was a dream to observe, a spiky king of reinvention and a master of modern fashion

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Roger James Hamilton - KARL LAGERFELD: A LEGENDARY FASHION ICON AND MASTER OF REINVENTION The destined lot achieves great success during their lifetime, while the rest are just lost in oblivion. German

Karl Lagerfeld was a dream to observe, a spiky king of reinvention and a master of modern fashion

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Karl Lagerfeld was a dream to observe, a spiky king of reinvention and a master of modern fashion

Karl Lagerfeld was a dream to observe, a spiky king of reinvention and a master of modern fashion

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Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019)

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