Karl Lagerfeld

Born:-09/10/1938

Designer, has his own line as well as designing for Chanel, known for his light, flowing style.

His glorious enterprise began with mixed reviews. Karl Lagerfeld's tenure at the legendary house of Chanel started in early 1983 - as a "consultant" to the couture - with more than a soupcon of uncertainty about what he's really achieve. But it wasn't long before the Chanel suit he rediscovered, reinvented and rejiggered became the thing to wear in the Eighties - and his shows for the house the most interesting in Paris. Lagerfeld had pulled off the seemingly impossible - he made a fashion uniform invented by a now deceased designer in late Fifties all the rage again 30 years later.

And that isn't all. Lagerfeld brought back the spendid net evening dresses from Coco Chanel's archives of the Thirties. But he also put Chanel C's on everything, fron Jackets and skirts to shoes, bags, swimsuits and underwear. And then Lagerfeldshowd the knees, then the thighs and sometimes even a nipple or two, some said that Coco would have turned in her grave. But what's more likely is thatshe would have applauded his inventiveness in making a timeless house forever young.

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