His career spans Chanel, as well as Balmain, Jean Patou, Krizia, Fendi, Chloe, even H & M -- and that could only be Karl Lagerfeld.
He's featured in the new documentary Lagerfeld Confidential, where you can watch the iconic designer in all his pony-tailed, sunglassed, pin-striped singularity. He's had an amazing career and life, two years of which were captured by director Rodolphe Marconi.
You can hear a podcast with Marconi, recorded at New York's Film Forum, that's enlightening and charming (and the first meeting between the director and Lagerfeld will have you grinning). Watch the designer's appearance on Charlie Rose here, see his catalogue of work as a photographer here, and read The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris, published last year.
written on Tuesday Nov 6, 2007
fashion icon.
