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That's the point, of course. Lagerfeld's look is part puffery, part put-on, calculated-like the luxurious clothes he designs-to divert attention from the serious business of style. "Nothing is serious in life," Lagerfeld, 46, insists...
...Nothing should look serious, because I think everything should have a light touch." At its most deft-the way it is almost always displayed to the public-Lagerfeld's touch has the lightness and much of the color of a hang glider...
...also a little reminiscent of Midas'. Unlike most designers, who work under a single label, Lagerfeld goes three ways. He designs the couture and ready-to-wear lines for Chanel in Paris. For Fendi in Rome he does furs and some couture, as well as swank ready-to-wear. And right now his first collection under his own name is making its debut all over the world. At prices ranging from $400 for a silk blouse to $4,000 for a nifty evening number that shifts along a woman's body like a Slinky, it is moving very...
...Lagerfeld also has a line of fragrances manufactured by Elizabeth Arden that brings in $140 million yearly in retail sales. He designs neckties, eyeglasses (for a frame like his own: about $45) and porcelain pieces, even as he continues to work for Trevira textiles as a "fashion adviser." He does a special line of men's and women's clothes for Isetan, a leading Japanese department store group, and is pondering a serious plunge into men's wear. "Yes," he says, with a discreet suggestion of feigned resignation, "I'm afraid I will do that...
Such a multiplicity of restless talents commands and affords a variety of resting places. Lagerfeld has one in Paris that looks more like a palace. He also has a hideaway in Rome-handy for all those trips to see the Fendi sisters-and a house in Brittany, christened Grands Champs (Large Fields). Oh, yes, and there is the apartment in Monaco. The Monaco digs are hypermodern, done predominantly in the bright style of the innovative designers known as the Memphis group. The setting, like Lagerfeld's fashion, is both nervy and funny: a silk-cushioned "conversation pit" shaped like...