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Karl Otto Lagerfeld (German pronunciation: [kaʁl ˈʔɔtoː ˈlaːɡɐˌfɛlt] ; 10 September 1933 – 19 February 2019) was a German fashion designer. Lagerfeld began his career in fashion in the 1950s, working for several top fashion houses including Balmain, Patou, and Chloé before joining Chanel in 1983. As the creative director of Chanel from 1983 until his death, he oversaw every aspect of the fashion house's creative output, from designing collections to overseeing advertising campaigns and store displays. He was instrumental in revitalizing the Chanel brand, helping it regain its position as one of the top fashion houses in the world. He was also creative director of the Italian fur and leather goods fashion house Fendi, as well as his own eponymous fashion label. Throughout his career, he collaborated on a variety of fashion and art-related projects. Lagerfeld was recognised for his signature white hair, black sunglasses, fingerless gloves, and high-starched detachable collars. Early life Karl Otto Lagerfeldt (spelled with a 'T') was born in Hamburg on 10 September 1933 to Elisabeth (née Bahlmann) and Otto Lagerfeldt. His father, coming from a well-off family of wealthy wine-merchants, was an illustrious businessman and polyglot, speaking nine languages; his father owned an import company (Lagerfeldt & Co.) specialising in evaporated milk, leading him to work with the American dairy company Carnation. During his travels, his father was present during the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake, escaping unharmed. A fluent speaker of Russian, his father had even attempted to gain citizenship to the country at the start of World War I, leading to an accusation of espionage and a three-year prison term in Vladivostok, eventually returning to Germany after the Russian Revolution in 1917. His maternal grandfather, Karl Bahlmann, was a local politician for the Catholic Centre Party. His family belonged to the Old Catholic Church. When Lagerfeld's mother met his father, she was a lingerie saleswoman from Berlin. His parents married in 1930.Lagerfeld was known to misrepresent his birth year, claiming to be younger than his actual age, and to misrepresent his parents' background. For example, he claimed that he was born in 1938 to "Elisabeth of Germany" and Otto Ludwig Lagerfeldt from Sweden. These claims have been conclusively proven to be false, as his father was from Hamburg and spent his entire life in Germany, with no Swedish connection. There is also no evidence that his mother, Elisabeth Bahlmann, the daughter of a middle-class local politician, called herself "Elisabeth of Germany". He was known to insist that no one knew his real birthdate. In an interview on French television in February 2009, Lagerfeld said that he was "born neither in 1933 nor 1938."In April 2013, he finally declared that he was born in 1935. A birth announcement was, however, published by his parents in 1933, and the baptismal register in Hamburg also lists him as born in that year, showing that he was born on 10 September 1933. Bild am Sonntag published his baptismal records in 2008 and interviewed his teacher and a classmate, who both confirmed that he was born in 1933. Later, his death record confirmed the same. Despite that, Karl Lagerfeld announced publicly that he was celebrating his "70th birthday" on 10 September 2008, despite actually turning 75.His older sister, Martha Christiane "Christel", was born in 1931. Lagerfeld had an older half-sister, Theodora Dorothea "Thea," from his father's first marriage. His family name has been spelled both Lagerfeldt (with a "t") and Lagerfeld. Like his father, he used the spelling Lagerfeld, considering it to "sound more commercial."His family was mainly shielded from the deprivations of World War II due to his father being a member of the Nazi party and his business interests in Germany through the firm Glücksklee-Milch GmbH.As a child, he showed great interest in the visual arts, and former schoolmates recalled that he was always making sketches "no matter what we were doing in class". Lagerfeld told interviewers that he learned much more by constantly visiting the Kunsthalle Hamburg museum than he ever did in school. Career Early career, Chloé, and Fendi (1954–1982) In 1954, Lagerfeld submitted a dress design to the International Wool Secretariat's design competition. His submitted entry presaged the chemise dresses that would be introduced by Givenchy and Balenciaga three years later. In 1955, Lagerfeld entered another IWS competition and won in the coat category. He also befriended another winner, Yves Saint Laurent, and was soon after hired by Pierre Balmain who was a judge for the competition. He worked as Balmain's assistant, and later apprentice, for three years.In 1957, Lagerfeld became the artistic director for Jean Patou. He left Jean Patou in 1962, to become a freelance designer, one of the first designers to do so. In the 1960s, he freelanced for brands including Charles Jourdan, Chloé, Krizia, Valentino, and for the Rome-based fashion house Tiziani. In 1965, he was hired by Fendi to modernize their fur line. The fashion editor of The Independent, Alexander Fury, wrote in 2015 that Lagerfeld's designs for Fendi were innovative and proved groundbreaking within the industry. These included the introduction of less expensive furs such as rabbit and squirrel pelts into high fashion, and launching a ready-to-wear line. He also designed the brand's double F logo. Lagerfeld remained with Fendi Rome until his death.In 1966, Lagerfeld became a designer for Chloé working alongside Gaby Aghion, and in 1974 he became the sole designer for the brand. In the 1970s, Lagerfeld's work for Chloé made him one of the most prominent designers in the world, often vying with Yves Saint Laurent for most influential. After a period in the early seventies when he toyed with styles from the 1930s and 1950s, in 1974 he contributed to the burgeoning Big Look or Soft Look by eliminating linings, padding, and even hemming from voluminous, thin-fabric garments, even from fur in his work for Fendi at the time, to enable an unencumbered, comfortable, layered style that would dominate the high fashion of the middle of the decade.After refining this style and saying that to go back to linings and stiff structure would be regressive, he did a complete about-face in 1978 and joined other designers in showing the heavily constructed, huge-shouldered, more restrictive looks that would dominate the 1980s. He presented such an exaggerated retro 1940s-50s silhouette – immense shoulder pads; severe, stiffly constructed suits with padded lampshade peplums; padded busts and hips; impractically tight skirts; awkwardly high spike heels; hats; gloves; even boned corsets – that his work did not look out of place alongside similar retro fare from Thierry Mugler of the period.During both these phases, his mid-seventies Soft Look phase and his late seventies-eighties big-shoulders pha.... Discover the Karl York popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Karl York books.

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    People State New York v. Karl Young

    Supreme Court of New York

    [138 A.D.2d 764 Page 764] Appeal by the People from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rotker, J.), dated June 26, 1987, which, inter alia, granted that bran...

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    Fairy Tale Comics

    Various Authors & Chris Duffy

    From favorites like "Puss in Boots" and "Goldilocks" to obscure gems like "The Boy Who Drew Cats," Fairy Tale Comics has something to offer every reader. Seventeen fairy tales are ...

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    The Country House Revealed

    Dan Cruickshank

    Spanning the architectural history of the country house from the disarming Elizabethan charm of South Wraxall, the classical rigour of Kinross in Scotland, the majesty and ingenuit...

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    Empire of Lies

    Karl York

    A series of sickening school bombings around Norway sees elite soldier Jim Thorn assigned to a covert SAS reconnaissance patrol to investigate. Their secretive Black Op unfolds beh...

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    Metatropolis

    John Scalzi

    Five original tales set in a shared urban futurefrom some of the hottest young writers in modern SFMore than an anthology, Metatropolis is the brainchild of five of science fiction...

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    Triburbia

    Karl Taro Greenfeld

    “Pitchperfect, dry, and smart, this is a vivid portrait of New York, our lives, our loves, and our hearts.”  Susan Orlean, author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid ...

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    Grace Flint

    Paul Eddy

    Special Agent Grace Flint ermittelt undercover gegen den Geldwäscher Karl Gröber, der auf der Liste der zehn meistgesuchten Verbrecher des FBI steht. Grace hat noch eine persönlich...

  • People State New York v. Karl Brown synopsis, comments

    People State New York v. Karl Brown

    Supreme Court of New York

    The second felony offender sentencing provisions of section 70.06 of the Penal Law are mandatory. The purpose of the procedures of CPL 400.21 is to ensure that defendants sentenced...

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    Hold the Line

    Michael Fanone & John Shiffman

    From a twentyyear police veteran and former Trump supporter who nearly lost his life during the insurrection of January 6th, this instant New York Times bestseller is also an urgen...

  • People State New York Ex Rel. Karl Davis v. Jesse Arnette synopsis, comments

    People State New York Ex Rel. Karl Davis v. Jesse Arnette

    Court of Appeals of New York

    n September, 1973 the eligible list was adjusted pursuant to court order to reflect corrections for improperly graded answers (Russo v Bronstein, Supreme Ct, New York C...

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    The Chiffon Trenches

    Andre Leon Talley

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the pages of Vogue to the runways of Paris, this “captivating” (Time) memoir by a legendary style icon captures the fashion world from the inside ou...

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    Ich und meine Mutter

    Vivian Gornick

    Vivian Gornick ist eine Entdeckung!Mütter sind anstrengend und bleiben es ein Leben lang. Schon als Kind spürt Vivian Gornick bei ihrer Mutter eine blinde Wut über deren Schicksal ...

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    Blowback

    Miles Taylor

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe author behind the “eyepopping” (CNN) #1 New York Times bestseller A Warning presents an urgent look at how our deeply divided nation is setting...

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    Whistles from the Graveyard

    Miles Lagoze

    “The most bracingly honest, refreshing account of the Afghan war” (Sebastian Junger, New York Times bestselling author) from a Marine Corps Combat Cameraman and director of the acc...

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    Field of Conflict

    Karl York

    Thorn's back! And this time, he's in the personal protection business.The life of his Oil Exec client is jeopardised when Thorn gets sent on a mission to collect another VIP the m...

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    Models of Influence

    Nigel Barker

    New York Times BestsellerNigel Barkerfashion authority, photographer, and host of Oxygen's The Facepresents 50 of the most influential models from the 1940s to today through a weal...

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    Tired of Winning

    Jonathan Karl

    THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The most important thing that has been written to date about what is in front of the American people in the next presidential election." Nico...

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    Klara and the Sun

    Kazuo Ishiguro

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Never Let Me G...

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    First In

    Karl York

    Sudden death is easy in the jungle. Slippery. Precipitous. Snakeinfested.A steaming hell on Earth.ExPathfinder elite soldier and tough guy Jim Thorn calls it Home. And he's invited...

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    People State New York Ex Rel. Karl M. Kotasek v. John M. Perhach

    Supreme Court of New York

    The petitioner appeals from a judgment denying his application for a writ of habeas corpus. It seems to be agreed that the sole question presented is whether or not a County Court ...

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    Gang of Thieves

    Karl York

    Stealing back stolen goods is easy...For a Special Forces team storming a corporate office.But as former Pathfinder Jim Thorn and his SAS crew plan the assault, their family member...

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    The Odyssey of Echo Company

    Doug Stanton

    SELECTED BY MILITARY TIMES AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SELECTED BY THE SOCIETY OF MIDLAND AUTHORS’ AS THE BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR The New York Times bestselling author of ...

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    Dal nostro corrispondente a Londra

    Karl Marx

    Seconda Edizione settembre 2016Con testo originale inglese a fronte / Includes original English text.Quanti sanno che Karl Marx ha scritto per gli Yankee? Eppure gli articoli per l...

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    Walking with the Muses

    Pat Cleveland

    An exciting account of the international adventures of fashion model Pat Clevelandone of the first black supermodels during the wild sixties and seventies.“Taking her reader throug...