Legendary Fashion Designer Karl Lagerfeld Dies in Paris at 85
Karl Lagerfeld, the iconic creative director of fashion house Chanel, has died in Paris aged 85, according to after the death of its founder Coco Chanel. He became one of the most prolific contributors to the label, and to the entire fashion world. Speculation over his ill health began in January, when Lagerfeld was born Karl-Otto Lagerfeldt in Germany in 1933 and raised near Hamburg. He later dropped the “t” because, he said, it sounded “more commercial.” Lagerfeld moved to Paris as a teenager and got his first job in the industry in 1955 ...
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