News: German Fashion Icon Karl Lagerfeld Passes Away at 85
(Photo Credits: Screengrab from @karllagerfeld’s Instagram)
Gay fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld has passed away on Tuesday morning—February 19, 2019—at the American Hospital of Paris located in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. He was 85. According to The Mirror, Lagerfeld had been battling pancreatic cancer though it remains unknown when he was diagnosed.
The House of Chanel confirmed the sad news in a statement that described Lagerfeld as “an extraordinary creative individual” who “reinvented the brand’s codes created by Gabrielle Chanel: the Chanel jacket and suit, the little black dress, the precious tweeds, the two-tone shoes, the quilted handbags, the pearls and costume jewelry.”
Fendi, on the other hand, said on Instagram, “Thank you Karl for the most beautiful journey. With all our love. Your Fendi family.”
To say that he was highly regarded in the industry is an understatement. Karl Lagerfeld was, since 1983, the creative director of the French luxury fashion house Chanel. He was also the creative director of Italian fashion house Fendi as well as his eponymous label Karl Lagerfeld.
Karl Lagerfeld had always been candid about his sexuality when he was alive, saying that he had known he was gay at age 13 and that his parents had no problem with it. Lagerfeld was a cat lover and had a Birman cat named Choupette who appeared in a magazine with French supermodel Laetitia Casta. He was also a book lover so he opened a bookstore in Paris called 7L on Rue de Lille in December 1999.
Lagerfeld reportedly rose from humble beginnings. His father, Otto Ludwig Lagerfeldt, “owned a company that produced and exported evaporated milk” while his mother, Elizabeth, “worked as a lingerie salesperson from Berlin.”
R.I.P talented man lived a along life.
Definitely an end of an era ciao hello bravo monsieur
At the age of 77 he was supposed to be prepared to marry his 20 year old lover when gay marriage became legal in Europe.
And he was also a terrible human being who, for decades, peddled and promoted fur despite being shown repeatedly what the beings skinned (sometimes alive) for that trivial “product” endured — complaining that it was unpleasant to see those horrors instead of acknowledging that it was an inexcusable atrocity to continue to cause them. Good riddance!