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...usual, Armani had said it best, but he was not delivering any new message by stopping skirts at mid-thigh. Legs were the hit of Milan. Designers sent insufficiently willowy models right back to the agency and ordered up more and longer legs. Almost every show had minis: Karl Lagerfeld, designing the Fendi collection, made them up in a witchy little F print of his own devising that managed to lend the house's ubiquitous initial some charm. Sexy Gianni Versace went straight to the point and crafted brief siren suits. At Complice, Claude Montana did seemingly endless variations...
...Lagerfeld, on the face of things, is used to being happy. Certainly he has had a lifetime of being rich. Born in Hamburg to an elegant Westphalian mother and a father who owned one of Europe's largest dairy companies, young Karl grew up in the countryside of Schleswig-Holstein, taught by tutors. When he was twelve, his mother went to Hamburg to inroll him in art school. Karl wanted to be a portrait painter, but the art school director pointed out that "your son isn't interested in art, he's only interested in clothes." Lagerfeld...
Since then, Yves has been the looming figure perpetually getting in the way of Karl's owned and operated spotlight. Although he insists that Saint Laurent is "the high-fashion designer I prefer to all the other ones," Lagerfeld created a furor last spring with an interview in the Paris-based monthly Actuel in which he had some saucy things to say about his fellow designer. Certainly the reflections (which Lagerfeld claims were not intended for publication) were not out of character for a man who says, "I respect nothing, no one, including myself. Respect is not a very...
...which can be entrepreneurial, as in his double-F logo for the Fendis that appears, like a ranch brand, on all their leather goods; elegant, as in his sumptuous evening wear; or easy, as in some of the simple, savvy suits he did for this fall's Karl Lagerfeld line. He grabs ideas everywhere. He designed a Fendi ermine cape based on the furrows of a plowed field. Polaroids of a fireworks display seen from his Monaco balcony inspired embroideries for dresses in his own spring line, which will be shown next month in Paris...
...fashion press, which shows reverence for his work and dotes on his ebullience, has taken to calling Lagerfeld Monte Karl, as if he were some kind of vintage decadent out of Somerset Maugham. Lagerfeld has raised no objection to the name; indeed, as a man who writes his own press kits and describes the "elegant aerodynamics" of his Chanels, he surely knows the value of a catchy moniker. It makes him sound comfortably unlike the world-class designer that he is, hardly the creator of dresses that may, in time, end up where he would probably least like...