Karl, forever young, staging himself as a Rock-star.
I have to link a short comment to Go´ Morgen Danmarks (Morning TV) feature of the above mentioned film this morning.
Because there is divided opinions about The Fashion documentary by Rodolphe Marconi from 2007, about and starring Karl Lagerfeld (b. 1933) .
The Question is, if the Film is not more selfconfident than confidential. If you research a little bit, you find that it is actually made on request, to give a certain image of Karl Lagerfeld, especially after the writer Alicia Drake in 2006 wrote The Beautiful Fall, a critical novel about Yves Saint Laurent, Karl Lagerfeld and his background. You can read a review here.
I mentioned Karl Lagerfeld in a post earlier, about Yves Saint Laurent. They were both discovered in 1954, at a Design-competition of The Internationale Wool Secretariat .
Karl Lagerfeld first became a designer for Balmain and later for Jean Patou. After that he was working freelance from 1962-82, for among others, Chloé and Italian Fendi, which he still designs for. In 1983 he was hired by the House of Chanel and since then been able to renew and lead the House towards its succees of today.
Karl Lagerfeld is a workaholic and has at the same time as he has been designing the many different collections, also been photographing the Campaigns of Chanel for many years.
One could argue that he would not have been where he is today, without his work-obsession. But for me it seems like a kind of escapism. But read more here and judge for yourself.
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