Karl Lagerfeld
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- ISBN 9780847834594
- Publication Date: 25 Feb 2025
- Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Unlike other recent books about Lagerfeld, this account is based upon interviews with Karl himself and is further enriched with additional material from interviews and testimonies from colleagues, friends, relatives, and muses including the Princess of Hanover, Bernard and Helene Arnault, Silvia Fendi, Bruno Pavlovsky, Tom Ford, Alessandro Michele, Valentino, Carine Roitfeld, Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer, Ines de La Fressange, Linda Evangelista, Tadao Ando, Fran Lebowitz, and others. Like a cat, Karl Lagerfeld had several lives he reinvented himself constantly over the course of his eighty-five years. He was many things: inspired creator, witty raconteur, media darling, highly cultured, eccentric in his manners, insatiable at work, asexual, a germophobe, ultra-sensitive but given to maintaining grudges. This account offers especially perceptive insights into Lagerfeld s relationship with Jacques de Bascher, his only true love, and how Yves Saint Laurent s later passion for de Bascher resulted in the infamous break in the longstanding friendship between the two couturiers. In comparison to other recent biographies, Marie Ottavi deftly gets at Lagerfeld s true inner nature.
Marie Ottavi is a well-known critic who writes for the leading French daily, Liberation. Her specialty is fashion, pop culture, counterculture, lifestyles, and anything related to new modes of living. She has authored numerous written portraits of key figures in contemporary culture, and she specializes in personalities who are extraordinary, beyond norms, unclassifiable, and unique. She is also the author of a critically acclaimed biography of Jacques de Bascher published in 2017. Christiana Hills is a highly regarded literary translator. She graduated from NYU's master's program in Literary Translation and obtained a doctorate in Translation Studies at Binghamton University in New York. She specializes in contemporary literary fiction, with a particular interest in experimental works and the Oulipo. Among her recent projects are translations of Michele Audin's One Hundred Twenty One Days and Agnes Desarthe's Hunting Party. Clients for her translation work include Casterman, Didier, Les Arenes, Lunii, Nathan, Robert Laffont, Stock, and Tourbillon.
