Karl Lagerfeld’s greatest creation was himself

Stephen Patience | Apollo | 26th February 2019

Lagerfeld insisted that he learned more from Hamburg’s Kunsthalle than from school. It showed. His fashion shows were masterpieces of the fabulous, even more perhaps than his designs. His personal life was a piece of highly curated performance art. He said variously “I want to be an apparition.” and “I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.”