Karl Lagerfeld is Dead to Me

tant pis.

Actually sad. He was kind of a legend.

He couldn’t bear to go on without Lee.

She was quite bitchy. I wonder if she was ever on DL.

Rest in piss

RIP.

How ever will the fat women know that they're fat now?? RIP you royal cunt.

I motion that “the old cunt finally died at...” be part of the DEAD TO ME format.

He had a good run.

He was bad ass and I loved his look!

I just saw his death notice posted at Tatler.com, which male hooker will throw himself on the coffin, or will there be several?

As evidenced by a small pic in Pat Cleveland's memoir, he was rather good looking in the early 70s.

It finally made the mainstream press.

I don't know how hot he was in the 1970s, actually.

Averaging estimates, he was worth about $150 millions. How much are his kept boys and sugarbabies getting in his will?

Someone PLEASE - TELL ANNA!

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I'm going to miss that weird little man. He was one of the first designers to cut that godawful Pippa Middleton down to size, not to mention his dismissal of that fucking Heidi Klum.

dear God R16

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I liked his cologne. My first boyfriend wore it. He smelled good. Like sex.

“Yes, some people say to me you’re too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.”

“No one wants to see curvy women. You’ve got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television and saying thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions.”

In the back of the private plane, a bed had been arranged for Lagerfeld. When Hudson, Kroenig's five year old son, noticed Lagerfeld's bed, he asked where he was going to be allowed to sleep. To that question, Lagerfeld responded: "You sleep on your seat, darling," Lagerfeld replied in his heavy German accent. "I have to arrive fresh, you don't have to. Don't be selfish."

He was a sweet, humble old guy. A real man of the people. RIP.

I'm sniggering, R21. From what I've read, Kroenig's boy is a bit of a shit.

Fuck, I wonder what Brad Kroenig's going to do for cash now. Unless Queen Lagerfeld set him up for life in his will, Brad'll have to *gasp* actually work!

R13 to clarify, I said EARLY 70s, as in 1971.

His H&M collection was magnificent. I’ll wear it today in honor of this nasty old cunt. Credit where it’s due.

Fuck Brad, what about Baptiste Giabiconi? Some rich A-Gay is about to snatch that up. Probably on the phone with him now. “I’m sorry to hear about Karl... so what are you doing later tonight?”

Lol, in the pic @R16/R19, he looks like one of Tyler Perry's [italic]Madea[/italic] characters.

Are we sure that isn't a still from the upcoming Madea Goes To a Funeral flick?

Baptiste Giabiconi claims to be "straight".

Poor Choupette!!!!

Truth be known, he actually died a few years back and they've just been propping his embalmed corpse up for photo ops all this time. The smell must have finally gotten too much for them to hide.

Aye, as straight as a 30p coin, R29...

dongful Baptiste

honey, he was worth way more than $150 million....more like 500 million....

You can have Baptiste, o thirsty ones. I'll have Sebastien Jondeau...

[QUOTE]dongful Baptiste

Karl grabbed that boy early before he even reached his peak. He had him when he was fresh meat and he’s been enjoying him ever since.

Sad. I really like him :(

Lagerfeld had a long-term relationship from the early 1970s with socialite Jacques de Bascher (1951–1989) until his death from AIDS in 1989.

Lagerfeld owned a red point Birman cat named Choupette, which, on 1 June 2013, he indicated he would marry, if it were legal.

When Lagerfeld lost 42 kg (about 92.6 lbs.) in 13 months in 2001, he explained: "I suddenly wanted to dress differently, to wear clothes designed by Hedi Slimane.... But these fashions, modeled by very, very slim boys—and not men my age—required me to lose at least 40 kg. It took me exactly 13 months." The diet was created specially for him by Dr. Jean-Claude Houdret, which led to a book called The Karl Lagerfeld Diet. He promoted it on Larry King Live and other TV shows.

In memory of the late and great designer, Karl Lagerfeld, here are some of the most memorable Karl-isms...

[QUOTE]”Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants."

😂😂😂

That sweatpants quote is my all-time favorite Karl-ism.

I'm really going to miss the old son of a bitch. He was a DLer through and through, even if he didn't post here.

First Lee, then Karl, Anna's next...and Joan Collins

Is his cat getting all this money? If yes, hi kitty! I will take care of you....

It’s exactly true. No one should wear sweat pants in public. It’s for people who have given up.

He was a weirdo.

The scariest queen since Divine.

Loved him!

Karl Lagerfeld ist für mich gestorben!

"Karl Lagerfeld ist tot für mich", the word-by-word translation of "Karl Lagerfeld is dead to me" sounds a bit clumsy in German.

Anyway, he's dead at last.

Who will take care of the cat?

He helped make the world more unique, and there will never be another quite like him. It’s always extraordinarily sad when we lose someone of that nature. People like Steve Jobs, Muhammad Ali, Aretha Franklin, Stephen Hawking, Stan Lee. They make life interesting. It’s most depressing when we lose the irreplaceable.

Well put, R50.

Just read about him and YSL in “The Beautiful Fall”. He was a sugar daddy his whole life it seems.

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pancreatic cancer

I always adored him for his comment to Caroline of Monaco‘s children (he‘s a godfather I think): „Pretend you‘re a grown-up. Until you know how to do that it‘s best you just keep your mouth shut.“

I need to know who will get custody of Choupette, or I won't be able to sleep at night!

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RIP, he was a great designer.

"Karl Lagerfeld....and his fucking FAN!"

Cuntastic

yes, I love his bitchy comments! He will be missed!

Lagerfeld made a couple of films for Chanel. This was my favourite.

„If I was a Russian woman I‘d be a lesbian as all the men are very ugly.“

Virginie Viard, Chanel studio director to replace him.

Datalounge will not be the same without him. He embodied Datalounge's cunty bitchery like no other.

Has Choupette released a statement yet?

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Whatever people thought about him he was never shy of his opinions and views.

In the DM article, Karl had stated that when he died, he wanted to be buried with Choupette.

Choupette, you in danger girl!

He was rich & talented enough to say whatever he wanted and get away with it....the dream of most DLer's.

For years, Lagerfeld opposed same-sex marriage, on the ground that it was a bourgeois affectation--gay people were supposed to be different. By 2013, he relented, but never married himself; he had his harem of male models.

He was surprisingly good-looking in his youth.

Wonderful French documentary where he draws his life and tells stories

[quote] By 2013, he relented, but never married himself; he had his harem of male models.

You spelled "escorts" wrong

R17 oh yes he certainly showed Pippa, some bitter little queen states he "doesn't like her face" and thinks she looks better from behind. But of course he thinks her sister pretty and is the kind of woman he prefers (bitch SAID WHAT?! lol). HA! Too bad Pippa didn't shoot back with "as if I was put on this Earth to care what some man thinks about my looks".

R6 Well what do you think this site and gay men are for?

I'm also going to miss that odd little man. He was SO German in his pronouncements. Imperious and at the same time hilarious. Marlene Dietrich was the same way.

R39 OH WOW! How deep you are to know so much about Kunt Lagerfeld. Your life must be filled with pointless bitchery and turning your nose up at people who aren't up to HIS standards which you have made your standards. Way to think for yourself, sheep.

I'm wearing sweatpants as I type. But at least I'm still alive.

I wonder if Choupette will now say “fuck it, at last” and slip into some sweat pants.

R30 He had a soft spot for his Siamese cat Choupette and supposedly had her taken to the vet every 10 days out of an abundance of caution.

R83 That's both sweet and sad. He should have done the same thing for himself.

I wonder why the weight gain? You'd think he'd lose weight from the cancer, but he tubbed up after keeping it off for a very long time. I wonder if he was pissed that he was going to check out being heavy? I still don't get going out sporting the rotting teeth either. If it was indeed prep for veneers, you think they would have given him a temporary cover up. Maybe he went a bit batshit toward the end.

Mon petite chou, Choupette!

His bitchy candor aside, this is a real loss for the fashion industry as there are very few "stars" left that understand the drama and theatricality of fashion, of staying true to your brand, and putting on a memorable show. It will be interesting to see how they work in a tribute to him during Chanel's F/W '19 show next month.

The family in happier times.

Perfection is dying out.

[quote]For years, Lagerfeld opposed same-sex marriage, on the ground that it was a bourgeois affectation--gay people were supposed to be different.

A large part of me agrees, but of course Karl had all the money in the world to not require the legal protections of marriage. He truly was an Old Cunt.

I thought Brad Kroenig was okay but never found him to be anything special. So I really don't understand why his ordinary-looking kids should be seen AND heard. Was Kroenig at one point one of Lagerfeld's kept boys? He was really nothing more than a soccer player from South St. Louis who got "lucky."

Still no word from Susan Dey?

I can see where he got it from.

[quote]"My mother used to say, 'You shouldn't wear hats. You look like an old dyke.' Do you say such things to children? She was quite funny, no?"

End of an era.

[quote]Fuck Brad, what about Baptiste Giabiconi? Some rich A-Gay is about to snatch that up. Probably on the phone with him now. “I’m sorry to hear about Karl... so what are you doing later tonight?”

Do you have his number?

[quote]I motion that “the old cunt finally died at...” be part of the DEAD TO ME format.

I'm glad I made it in under the wire.

So who’s in the will? Who gets the cat? The Kroenig brats?

I had a collaboration with him 10 years ago. Forget about the bitchiness, that was just part of his public image. If he found out that you had a sense of humor, you were in. He was just so broadly cultured and intelligent. I will never forget the discussions shared with this most gifted artist. One DL worth quote came out of his mouth every minute. Simply amazing ! He had the aura of a rock star by the way. As we walked out, everyone stood frozen in the street. Quite a sight...

[quote]Was Kroenig at one point one of Lagerfeld's kept boys?

Do you even need to ask? Kroenig was practically the wife. Karl would fly them to him and it was understood the mother was not invited.

He influenced me greatly. I’m fortunate as fuck that I had the opportunity to live in Manhattan, and SHOP.

I shopped the living daylights out of that city, and I wore (and on occasion still do) Chanel, and the rest of some of the best.

He taught young women how to look fabulous, and I’m grateful that the fucker lived, if only for that reason.

The city had changed so much now, and is so different from the time when Uncle Karl ruled over it all.

RIP, old coot. And thank you for showing me and many others, how to look like a princess!

Sad. RIP.

Not only was he a true genius, he was also very cultured and funny, traits that are extremely rare to find in the fasion industry.

He died of pancreatic cancer so the more recent photos show his decline from that illness.

He did save the House of Chanel and worked there for 30 years.

RIP. Mr Lagerfeld.

Now that the old Masters are in their twilights (Armani and Valentino won't be around much more), who are the ones supposed to substitute them as the living greats? Galliano? That plastic surgery addict from Balmain? Marc Jacobs By Marc Jacobs By Marc Jacobs For Marc Jacobs? Such an embarrasing decadence.

I hope his boys get money. Doubt a single charity will get anything.

“I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long.”

“My only ambition in life … is to wear size 28 jeans.”

“No memoirs. I have nothing to say, and what I could say, I cannot say.”

“I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.”

“Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke of myself.”

“I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.”

“I’ve always known that I was made to live this way, that I would be this sort of legend.”

“I’m a kind of fashion nymphomaniac who never gets an orgasm.”

“[Critics] are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly.”

“There was once a designer in Paris who said, ‘My dresses are only for intelligent women.’ She went out of business, so maybe there were only idiots. In fact, it was not clever for her to say that. I design for the people who like. There is no age group because age group is a racism in a way, too.”

“To say that there is no fashion anymore is ridiculous. The fashion of no-fashion is still fashion. And fashion is a train that waits for nobody. Get on it, or it’s gone.”

“If you do not want to be pulled on the pants, do not become a model! Join the [convent] instead, there will always be a place for you at the convent. They recruit, even!”

“Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.”

“Life is not a beauty contest, some ugly people are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people. The worst is ugly short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life — they are mean and they want to kill you.”

“Those social networks, there’s something sad about them … It’s like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.”

“Trendy is the last stage before tacky.”

“If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: ‘One shouldn’t do that’ — that is bourgeois.”

I don’t even think I’m that famous. Now, Choupette really is famous. She has become the most famous cat in the world. I even get propositioned by pet food companies and things like that, but it’s out of the question. I’m commercial. She’s not. She’s spoiled to death. Obviously.”

“She is like a kept woman. She has a strong personality. She has lunch and dinner with me on the table, with her own food. She doesn’t touch my food. She doesn’t want to eat on the floor. She sleeps under a pillow and she even knows how to use an iPad. She has two personal maids, for both night and day. She is beyond spoiled.”

R80 You're an asshole I found the info on his wiki page.

[quote]Life is not a beauty contest, some ugly people are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people. The worst is ugly short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life — they are mean and they want to kill you

I’m going to miss our Kunty Karl

A whole world died with him.

Some years back I went to a Chanel retrospective at the Met and the designs were lovely, agelessly appealing--until we hit the Lagerfeld designs, which looked like K-Mart knockoffs of "Dynasty" costumes. He's been dead to me since then.

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The “bitchy” quotes are just dull and mean. Bitches have wit.

Kristen Stewart defended Karl Lagerfeld: "He's kind - he is who he is for a reason"

The comments came after the Meryl Streep dress fiasco

He wasn’t bitchy just a mean bitter old man.

*throws some sweatpants at R114* Here you go, cunt. Fuck off back to Jezebel with the rest of your sexless tribe.

Kristen Stewart et Karl Lagerfeld - Front row lors de la présentation de la collection Chanel

R103, my mother and I were discussing this.

Young women today, do not know how horrid they look. They purchase some of the tackiest outfits I’ve ever seen, and model them on social media, as if they’re on to something good.

It truly is a shame.

I don’t care if I sound shallow. I have an OUTSTANDING wardrobe, and always have. I owe much of it to the greats, Uncle Karl being one of them.

Through the years, I’ve had the privilege of collecting and adding some timeless pieces that I will never part with, because I can wear them now, as I did at their time of purchase.

Why are people coming on here to denigrate the man’s legacy? If this isn’t your thing, then promptly fuck off back to whatever is.

Gaspard Ulliel, Kristen Stewart, Karl Lagerfeld

Another elitist bottom feeder gone. Ugly man, ugly clothes.

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Lagerfeld once said "I'm very much down to earth. Just not this earth.“

he loved books!

[quote]His mother was, by all accounts, the single most formative influence on her precocious son, who often reported that he had disliked his childhood. His father moved his family to a small town in the north of Germany during World War II, and Karl, who was given to wearing a formal suit and tie to school, did not exactly fit in.

[quote]“When I was 14 I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad,” he was quoted as saying. “But my mother said: ‘You shouldn’t smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful, and that shows when you smoke.’ ”

Yes, r122, forget about the cat, I want to know what’s going to happen to his 300,000+ books!

I want his library!

[quote]Your hands are not that beautiful, and that shows when you smoke.’

And his hands were never seen again.

[quote]He has been photographed with Lagerfeld so often that gossip blogs have mistakenly identified him as the designer’s boyfriend, but their relationship is not romantic. Lagerfeld refers to Brad and the other models that travel with him as his family, albeit a self-selected, genetically ideal one. “I hate ugly people,” Lagerfeld told me. “Very depressing.”

[quote]If models were show dogs, Brad would be a golden retriever. He has a strong jaw, hazel eyes and thick blond hair that seems perpetually windswept. The scruff on his face is shaped carefully, deliberately, to draw attention to his cheekbones. Unlike other beautiful people whose appeal lies in a distinctive facial quirk, Brad’s features are perfectly proportioned, with no apparent flaws or peculiarities. When he models, he looks like a Roman statue. “His best bit is the curve of his thigh,” Lagerfeld once said.

[quote]At the airport, Hudson snapped photos on an iPhone while his father modeled for him. An hour went by. The man in the suit reappeared and said there would be “a special cake” for “Mr. Hudson” on the plane. Brad asked if there might be special wine for him. “Might as well, right?” he said, and grinned.

Brad comes off as dumber than a golden retriever but he and his wife figured out the necessity of using their son to hold Karl’s interest and keep the money flowing.

[quote] Oh fuck. Pancreatic cancer got him.

I told you I'm hardcore

It should say on his tombstone:

"KARL LAGERFELD

1935-2019

Beloved Cunt"

No, what really should be on his tombstone:

Karl Lagerfeld: 0

Sweatwants: 1

[quote] I don’t care if I sound shallow. I have an OUTSTANDING wardrobe, and always have. I owe much of it to the greats, Uncle Karl being one of them.

Mary!

[quote]Through the years, I’ve had the privilege of collecting and adding some timeless pieces that I will never part with, because I can wear them now, as I did at their time of purchase.

[italic]Mary![/italic]

[quote] Why are people coming on here to denigrate the man’s legacy? If this isn’t your thing, then promptly fuck off back to whatever is.

[bold]MARY!!![/bold]

Aw, FUCK!

No, what really should be on his tombstone:

Karl Lagerfeld: 0

Sweatpants: 1

I wear Lagerfeld (classic) to this day. Just a tiny touch is all you need. I can't count how many times people have asked me what I am wearing that smells so good.

Lagerfeld toilet water smells like vanilla extract. And talk about PC: Short men will try to kill you? I hate ugly people? Yikes! What age is this fossil from??

[quote]Short men will try to kill you? I hate ugly people? Yikes! What age is this fossil from??

The Age of Alzheimer's?

[quote]Everybody should go to bed dressed like they have a date at the door.

But my dates usually show up impromptu at my back door! That's quite a different ordeal...

He hated fat people and ugly people intensely, so yes he was the elder statesman of Datalounge.

First, Lee Radziwell dies at 85 years old and now Karl at the same age. Anyone know who is next on the Magic 85 bandwagon?

I think Gloria Vanderbilt is on her last legs but she's in her 90's.

85 is the new 27!

Imagine if Chanel hires someone like Marc Jacobs to replace Karl. I have a feeling that Marc is entering his bitter phase and will have lots of interesting insulting quotes to unload. The Little Black Jacket will become the tattered flannel jacket but if they price it at $20,000 there are a handful of rich nuts who will buy it.

There is only one person who can replace Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel. Project Runway's Mondo.

Choupette's diary:

Can you really leave your inheritance to a cat?

I think we know who gets to keep the cat.

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r138, I just hope it’s not Ruth Bader Ginsburg (also b. 1933). That leaves Joan Collins...

Almost, R143. You can set up a trust whose sole purpose is to lavishly care for the animal. Leona Helmsley left millions to her dog.

He had a great ass but he couldn't live forever.

R77 take that tongue of yours back to th BRF thread and rim Pippa over there...go away.

This came from his Wikipedia page. The mental image of Karl ducking and Calvin getting hit made me giggle.

[quote]Lagerfeld was the target of a pieing by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in 2001 at a fashion premiere at Lincoln Center in New York City. However, the tofu pies hurled by animal rights activists in protest against his use of fur within his collections went astray, instead hitting Calvin Klein. A PETA spokesperson described the hit on Klein as "friendly fire," calling Klein, who doesn't use fur, "a great friend to the animals" and Lagerfeld a "designer dinosaur," who continues to use fur in his collections.

A tofu pie, no less. Ugh.

RIP to Karl, a great character.

yes, you can leave your money to pets. A few in NY are rich as fuck. inherited millions.

He wasn't bad at all. One of the few fabulous people on Earth. RIP

Technically, you can establish a trust for the benefit of the animal, but the animal doesn’t own anything.

The Onion lands it perfectly.

He was truly a fashion genius, all those collections, season after season. Nobody else could have done what Karl did.

A few talented ones killed themselves...McQueen comes to mind.

What was it that happened between him and Meryl Streep?

I'm crying as I type this!!! My hands are shaking as well, since I am fucking DEVASTATED!!! We were on holiday in Trancoso and I woke up to this news. I had dozens of friends furiously texting me about it while I was sleeping, but I STUPIDLY turned off my ringer. We immediately summoned a helicopter to ferry us to Rio to catch the first flight to Paris. I ADORED KARL BEYOND WORDS, but even his closest friends had no idea the end was so near (though obviously we knew he was sick, even if he - infuriatingly - refused to reveal HOW sick).

We just departed GIG on the AF nonstop to CDG. Thank God they still had two seats in La Première available! I don't think I could've handled flying back in steerage! (meaning business class, natch) I've already informed the stewardess to keep the vintage Dom coming. I need something to help me cope!

R103

Iris Van Herpen

Nicolas Ghesquière

Guo Pei

I'm ready for my casket dance. Which way to the memorial?

Isn't he the one who had the really hot bodyguard about 10 years ago?

r138 Larry King, Michael Caine, Roman Polanski, Cissy Houston, Robert Blake, Carol Burnett and Barbara Feldon are all currently 85 I believe.

R103, r160 I doubt any of those will replace him. He is being replaced by his right-hand woman Virginie Viard at Chanel, we'll have to see about Fendi, where they have less of a strict tradition to maintain, although Silvia Venturini Fendi could take over the women's line.

R158 KARL LAGERFELD ACCUSES MERYL STREEP OF BEING CHEAP IN ARGUMENT OVER OSCARS GOWN

“A genius actress, but cheapness also, no?”

Streep became the latest target of the Chanel creative director’s famously frank manner when he accused her of being ‘cheap’ and cancelling an order for an Oscars gown the Best Actress nominee had planned to wear to Monday’s awards ceremony.

“I made a sketch, and we started to make the dress,” Lagerfeld told Women’s Wear Daily. “[But then someone from Streep’s camp called and said] ‘Don’t continue the dress. We found somebody who will pay us.’”

“After we gift her a dress that’s 100,000 euros [AUD $135,000], we found later we had to pay [for her to wear it]. We give them dresses, we make the dresses, but we don’t pay,” the 83-year-old continued.

“A genius actress, but cheapness also, no?”

“After we gift her a dress that’s 100,000 euros [AUD $135,000], we found later we had to pay [for her to wear it]. We give them dresses, we make the dresses, but we don’t pay,”

Meryl is really cheap lol

cute

We’re talking Meryl Streep, not some fly-by-night floozy. Quality ain’t cheap.

Wow, what a life he had! He knew everyone from Warhol to ...well everyone. I can only imagine how exciting Paris was in the 60s and 70s, all the energy and parties...and then the AIDS crisis came. Unlike others he survived and stayed relevant all the time. I remember reading about his childhood, how it sometimes was't exactely easy for him since he was the typical sensitive talented gay kid who didn't fit in though he never let it drag him down. Instead he decided to live the best possible life and left this boring demodé post-war Germany behind. He went to Paris as a nobody and thanks to his incredible work ethic everything he wished for came true. Yes he was a kunt but also a succesful eldergay who's seen it all. I'm so sad right now. Oh, and spot the homosexual in this pic!

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"He is so much more than a fashion designer; he is a true renaissance man, one of the greatest artists of our time." kristen ❣️

These threads make me love DL again.

See how much fun we can have without mentioning the orange cold sore?

This is a nice little story from someone who met him when she was a child.

Choupette is chewing the face off of Chocolate Giabiconi as we speak!

MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW!

I wonder if it will work out with Virginie Viard as the new designer. Will the other ladies in the team respect her without Karl's patronage? And she hates attention...

Such a great pic r51, thanks for posting.

As a mature woman she was wise to always keep her neck covered. The neck is never right even after a lift, sadly.

Straights want their clowns to be bizarre and eccentric and sexless.

This person is a relic of a dying age.

Does anyone Remember the old Margaret Cho stand-up bit where she impersonated Lagerfeld and said in a thick German accent while waving a fan, “I need to constantly fan the flames of my faggotry!”

I remember.

What did he see in K Stew? She seems so humorless.

he forced that Jenner twat on us...nuf said.....

R179 I think it was: "Of course I am a faggot dahling. See how I'm fanning the flames of my fucking faggotry"

“Karl Lagerfeld is such a faggot!”

R178 says the nobody from nowhere...

R174, the dirt on Giabiconi (supposedly) is that Karl was deeply infatuated with him until he showed a few sparks of independence. Nobody does that to Karl. After a period of exile, Karl welcomed him back, but Giabiconi was not first among equals in the harem again.

I bet his house was as big of a mess as Andy Warhol’s. Every candid picture on the cat’s Instagram shows clutter piled to the edge of every flat surface.

He was highly amusing to me with how he did not sugar coat things. Rest in peace.

He was the most unapologetically pretentious person who ever lived. He went through that ridiculous period when he would carry a fan with him in public and use it.

I remember being at a Margaret Cho show where she said, "Karl Lagerfeld carries a fan with him everywhere he goes now. Who does he think he is, a Spanish duenna?"

I could never see him as fabulous--just as ridiculous and pretentious.

R185 same with Claudia Schiffer and Ines de la Fressange. He was so sulky when Cloodia started working with YSL and Ines got married to that short French millionaire and wasn't available as faghag No.1 any longer

Baptiste can actually date someone born after world war 2 now!

I was yapping to a friend of mine who works in the industry and she said that there's been a *lot* of whispering starting up about some models now being unemployable because they depended so much on Lagerfeld for attention/media exposure. Something similar happened when Hedi Slimane flounced from Dior and a number of his "Dior Boys" vanished/faded from view. If this means less Koenig and Buttiste, the better.

Karl definitely was a career maker.

I’m SO GLAD that bitch died fat.

I do as well R125. Why does this site not say he is gay? Is it true he was HIV+? I read that here on datalounge and I am not sure if it is true?

R191 let's hope those grifters Koenig and Buttiste go away. At least Karl's pussy will have a loving family.

R180 I don't get the Kristen Steward fascination either. I almost dozed off during that video clip. She always looks bored to death...and kind of constipated.

Karls diet secret: heroin.

He had a truly superb collection of French 18th century paintings and furniture he sold at Christies about 15 years ago. Bought Memphis with the proceeds.

I guess Voldemort needed another Death Eater.

Has anybody checked in on Giorgio Armani?

R194 [quote]Is it true he was HIV+?

It was a rumor from maybe 2 or 3 years ago + also r 38

doesn't really matter.

So many trolls on this thread.

looks like at the cannes yacht circuit for baptise

The bulk of his estate will go to Kroenig's son. The dad gave up 20 years if his life to Lagerfeld for this payday.

Sexy:

The Margaret Cho thing is what I always remember about him.

r164, my answer was not for those people to replace him at Chanel, It was to answer r103's question of, "Now that the old Masters are in their twilights (Armani and Valentino won't be around much more), who are the ones supposed to substitute them as the living greats?"

He resembles that ghoulish Calvin Klein(another MUMMIFIED QUEEN).

Well of course you all LOVED this man. Secretly all of you wish you could be "bitchy fabulous" and be openly petty and miserable. This man was a fucking caricature like so many of you. But at least he knew he was a caricature, so many of you are just so fucking nasty and mean spirited that you think it's cute.

Now the dudes he fucks can actually chow down on decades younger cock

Van Hellsing, fuck auto correct. It's clear the gay God's don't want me here lol. I still think a lot of you are fucking nasty, bitter, petty and miserable however.

Unlike you, r210.

Fuck off back to Jezebel, R208. Christ, can we get a fat-frau filter please? They're revolting.

Why, R210, did you expect anything else?

R210 pot meet kettle, stinky pussy bitch!

[quote}Through the years, I’ve had the privilege of collecting and adding some timeless pieces that I will never part with, because I can wear them now, as I did at their time of purchase.

I had no idea he made caftans.

Time for some new ideas.

Aww, I liked the old asshole. He was unfiltered, and just said what he thought without worrying how other people would take it.

So, he rises from his crypt when? … Thursday at sunset? Will there be cameras and press? Or won't he show up on film anymore?

He can use his notorious fans on the flames down here.

Get a grip Ladies ... Karl was just a skilled seamstress with an attitude. Not a genius, not an artist. For crying out loud drawing the same dress over and over again in different colors and lengths is not like painting the fucking Sistine Chapel.

Fuck all of you *burp.*

-Karl

He hasnt really been designing anything these past few years has he? He was doing Chanel, Fendi and his own brand. Are they all just brand that are cults of personality based on him then?

[quote] Van Hellsing, fuck auto correct.

And you STILL got it wrong!

V A N H E L S I N G

What I loved about him was the unapologetic bitchiness and the obsession with pop culture. I remember ten years ago he would tweet about the Olsen twins.

What I didn't like what his creepy appearance. iI was certainly memorable, but it wasn't a flattering look at all. I don't know why he settled on it and kept it for so long.

R222, I think it’s clear that he was sick for a while and could not have been doing much work. Luxury brands are worth their weight in gold, even if their actual products (Gucci, Louis Vuitton) are crap. They will always be moneyspinners no matter what.

The Queen is dead, long live her pussy!

That's not true. Luxury brands go out of fashion if their stuff has a reputation only for crap after a while, or if the name becomes forgotten.

85? Gee, he didn’t look a day over... formaldehyde.

Unless the fan was destroyed as well he will rise again. Like any other movie vampire villain.

I love Karl Lagerfeld. The rest of you can shut your whore mouths.

R230- I agree. I think the real man behind the facade we all saw was INCREDIBLY talented, a visionary, and funny as hell. I don't think anyone knew this man, unless they KNEW him. Beautiful clothes. And he irreplaceable.

He was truly talented, no doubt. But he was also a huge cunt.

R85, he was probably swelling related to the pancreatic cancer. It could have been side effects from meds as well.

The more I think about this, the sadder it makes me.

He may have been bitchy on the outside but anyone who loves a pet that much is really an old softie.

[quote] He may have been bitchy on the outside but anyone who loves a pet that much is really an old softie.

I concur!

I think it comes down to how much he read. A library of over 300k books and he could read in four languages (English, French, Italian, German). His reading is what gave him the bottomless well of creativity to draw on.

That, I fear, is what’s missing from the younger generations. In the digital age, no one has the time or attention spam to be a bibliophile. So art and culture are less informed, layered, interesting.

And bitchy and strange as he was, his eyewear is so fucking fabulous it makes me want to scream.

In the pic of his sister, it looks like she’s wearing a SWEATSUIT. Talk about destroying an image.

R117, I’ve read a lot of stupid, shallow, reeking of effort posts on DL in my day, but goddamn, yours takes the prize. Possibly in perpetuity.

If he was still using fur, good.

He was defending the use of fur as recently as 2015, so fuck him to hell.

Ja. I agree.

Who are the actual owners of Chanel? Since it is not a public company it does not have to publicly disclose. Judging by the little that it did disclose a couple of years ago it seems to be a massively profitable company.

He was right Pippa should g show her face

Is g show anything like a g spot?

E242 Yes she's so ugly she looks like a dicknose monkey.

Coco Chanel gave the rights to her Chanel No. 5 to two Jewish brothers in return that they pay all her living expenses for the remainder of her life, which turned out to be 45 years of luxury living in a private apartment at the Paris Hotel Ritz.

Kroenig was hung like a horse, why do u think Lager kept him round so long???

"...was..."

Is he no longer long?

Is Baptiste Giabaconi circumcised or just a little fluffed in the nude pix?

Also, put him down as one of the many who ruined his gorgeous body with tattoos, especially the Roman numeral ones.

Koenig isn't hung like a horse. More like a Shetland pony...

Kroenig has struck me as perfectly average in everywhere, except for his ego, which is particularly outsized for his achievements in life.

^Not a great ass, either.

Baptiste, honey, don't try to grow facial hair.

r250 shows a tinymeat.

Next.

I just read in the newspaper that Lagerfeld did SIXTEEN collections PER YEAR.

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So they'll finally mingle cinereally, ossa ossibus as the poet said. Post-rogal coitus is better than none.

The sale of his art collection a few years back

Wonder if he asked for anything truly wacky with the ashes. Make them into diamonds or have them thrown in the faces of legions of sweatpant-wearing frumps from Jezebel/Middle America...

FFS, just read the damn will already!

You keep saying how creative he is, but all the posts are of his model pets, but where is his work? Maybe I am not that old, but all I remember are those tired tweed jacket things every single year on the Chanel runway. I am sure rich old women love them. I am sure he is a good manager and businessman, in the same way that some people think Elon Musk is great. I doubt that he was doing any designing at Chanel, Fendi and his label. He seems to be there for his outsize personality, he brings the money. His photography has been blahhhhhh. I see the genius with Alexander McQueen but when I hear Lagerfeld, I think that he brings money. But then whatdo I know.

I remember things like hula hoop purses and shopping basket purses

[quote] I think it comes down to how much he read. A library of over 300k books and he could read in four languages (English, French, Italian, German). His reading is what gave him the bottomless well of creativity to draw on.

1. there's no way he read 300k books, even in a lifetime of 85 years. he was just an obsessive collector.

2. In every photo of his library, it's all just oversized PICTURE books. I doubt he was reading Schopenhauer and Lady Murasaki and George Eliot.

I think he was genius, but I can't resist posting "Kunty Karl Kroaks". I believe he would find that funny.

And, R252, no lips.

really r247? Not a horse or even a pony r250, more like a hamster.

R263, his library makes sense, he was a visual artist. I graduated from art school many years ago and worked in bookstores to make ends meet, my library is large and mostly "picture" books.

[quote] [R263], his library makes sense, he was a visual artist. I graduated from art school many years ago and worked in bookstores to make ends meet, my library is large and mostly "picture" books.

Well and good. But someone above claimed how "well read" he was, and I don't know that was true.

R268, in this portrait of him from 2007, he comes across as quite well-read, and also very high energy. Clearly, for a long time it really was him doing the design work.

A lot of designers read and travel to get inspired.

wtf??? she couldn't afford a dentist for them rotten yeller teeth?????

He hired my friend in Paris once and wanted him to sit on his old face, he tipped good !!!! ate my friends very ! dirty ass clean, he insisted it be unwiped...washed the pebbles down with loads of piss.

So apparently Choupette gets the money. Does that mean Brad and the escort, sorry, Baptiste get nothing?

What happens in 5 years when Choupette dies?

So who is the official widow Lagerfeld, Brad or Baptiste?

I hope that they bury him with that high & tight shirt collar. Keeps away that unsightly turkey neck.

R274, I assume that when Choupette dies, her “share” of the estate will go to human heirs. But they will be stuck pampering that cat for years until they get the money! Now that, if it happens, would have been an impressively cunty move.

The two princesses, now queens, will be fighting it out for the cash.

That kitty is in grave danger.

Bitchy. Old. Filthy rich. Queen. OK, I'm four of the five. If only I had a fortune like his, since with the money comes the bevy of beautiful rent boys.

If ever there was someone that epitomized DL's (sometimes) caustic wit, it was Karl Lagerfeld.

You in danger, Choupette.

Love this pic posted by Linda E.

I like that Karl didn't want any memorial ceremonies - actually quite the opposite from being narcissistic. This reminded me of the Philipp Seymour Hoffman one which I found rather disgraceful with all these self-absorbed celebrities who lustfully had to show the photographers how SAD and DEVASTED they were. Poor Philipp.

Oh I remember this photo R281! Honest post by Linda.

One of the very few guys/male models who can make Chanel menswear look half way decent:

fabulous thread, queens

Happy Family:

Why did Karl not make Willy part of his stable? He dressed, sketched him and gushed about his appearance and strong presence. Willy's mother is also a designer with her own label. It seems like it would have been a no-brainer to make him a companion. Was he a tad too brown for Karl's liking?

So Karl liked to eat shit, R272? I'll always picture him now with his face buried in your friend's dirty, unwashed ass.

The fucking cat is the only one NOT looking at the camera.

I call the shots now.

R281, is she shitting out a feather bed?

And, R288, everything you read on DL is 1000% true!

Whether it's true or not, just the visual is rather repellent.

He looked drastically different in the months before he died.

Not sure what that was about. He looked like a completely different person.

No shit.

R294, dying'll do that.

Because of the weight gain, R294?

Lagerfeld and books. He created the 7L bookstore in Paris. The site is interesting to browse because there is a lot of Karl in it. Memoirs are to be published but only in English.

The couches in R122's pic look like they've seen better days...perhaps when dusty, faded furniture was the thing.

He seems really traumatized. Or seemed. Like a very severe case of post traumatic stress.

World War Two left its mark on him, I believe.

It had a way of doing that to people.

Do you think once he died and his consciousness transcended this became his avatar?

Waz kinda purty.

Yes, he is even now strolling around Elysium in that bowtie and floppy brown hair, working his fan.

But he's had enough of that strangling collar. Time to BREATH!

I love that R289! She just doesn't give a fuck.

Karl Lagerfeld in 24 Hours: 20 daily newspapers, 10 cans of Diet Coke, 7 hours of sleep … The designer shares his schedule.

[quote] 8:00 A.M. I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before—the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours. I wear a long, full-length white shirt, in a material called poplin imperial, made for me by Hilditch & Key in Paris after a design of a 17th-century men's nightshirt I saw at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Karl and cat:

10 cans of Diet Coke a day? This shit is so unhealthy. Sorry, but maybe that caused his pancreatic cancer.

I love that pic in r286. A fairly average family and then Queen Karl. Just before they took the picture, I am picturing him saying “I shan’t be photographed without Choupette”. Then once they found the cat, he eyerolled and hugged about the lighting until it was adjusted, and only then did he let them do a few test shots before the real thing.

HUFFED* about the lighting.

Auto fucking correct.

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r305=Kelly Osbourne

He was magnificet!

Look at the frauen worrying that Diet Coke probably killed him. He was 85, bitches! Eighty five!

Brad Kroenig is pretty bland-looking, so his long hair gave him the something extra when he was in his prime. Without it, he looks like any other catalog model, which is about all he's done in recent years when he wasn't at Karl's beck and call. And it's obvious Karl wasn't a size queen or he would not have kept Brad around.

It wouldn't surprise me if Lagerfeld was one of those old queens who followed the "Great Dark Man" mantra. Brad may have known better than to give it up. Baptiste, on the other hand...

Brad mooching off him until the very end, with his van trap family in tow. With a face like his, contacts and the fact that he was in the center of it all, he should have been able to make his own fortune a long time ago.

When you have to bring your entire family to the sugar daddy house for a date, then it’s time to pack it in.

I want full custody of Choupette...for the twins.

That's all.

Was brad ever super hot? I haven't seen those pix. So wifey just played along with this arrangement?

I think Karl was all about control. While he really loved Jacques de Bascher, he made sure that de Bascher was totally dependent on him and could never free. That, for some reason, was what he wanted. He repeated that pattern with Brad: he made Brad into a dependent lapdog. The fact that Brad had a wife who would go along with the humiliation probably just made it better.

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Which models attended?

You would think that he'd be dressed head to toe in the brands he represented but all his jackets were made by Dior.

"Brad...bland-looking..."

Agree. The hair was pretty.

Diet Coke? Does that mean aspartame did him in?

Loved him.

Worked up til the very end. Put out an ENORMOUS amount of collections each year.

One of the few in fashion who was highly intelligent.

Did any of you bitches buy his diet book? I always meant to, and now the few copies left on Amazon are going for nearly $200.

R315 Even at 85, pancreatic cancer is still a very shitty way to die. Actually one of the worst sorts of cancer you can get...and an immediate death sentence for almost every patient. Alcohol abuse and genetics are also big factors but since he probably wasn't an alcoholic and he got it very very late in his life, I bet the 10 cans of diet coke might have been a factor.

How can you drink ten cans per day of anything and think it's okay? Even if it's carrot juice - why ten cans per day? That's just nuts.

[quote]Look at the frauen worrying that Diet Coke probably killed him. He was 85, bitches! Eighty five!

I know, R315; isn't it tragique?

[quote]Does that mean aspartame did him in?

Don't try to pin this on me! I was nowhere near the place!

Now _I_ am Queen! Bow, sluts!

How is it decided who gets to stay in his residences? Was everyone told to pack up and leave once the doctor declared his time of death? I bet his groupies are stealing property left and right as we speak. The coming days and months are guaranteed to be a circus. Intrigue, infighting, you name it. I wouldn't at all be surprised if a baby's mama shows up to stake her claim at the eleventh hour, or we find out Choupette died years ago and was replaced with an alley cat, invalidating the will. I'll be waiting to cover the sordid details.

Baptiste, Brad Kroening, Amanda Harlech are all out of work now. Who else? There is this rumour that Lagerfeld was broke more than once in his lifetime and the Wertheimers always helped him out with large credits. And now Karl has practically no cash to leave and most of his stuff will go back to his bosses. Insiders? Any truth to this or as believable as his AIDS rumour?

R329 He used to chew and spit out food to keep his weight down. That sort of thing fucks up the enzymes in the body.

Do any of you trying to figure out the wrong doings that caused his death realize that everyone dies? Every single person regardless of what they do or did not do dies. That's it. No one here gets out alive.

Learn how to live. He figured out how to do that better than most of us here ever will.

^Well because most of assumed that he would live forever, that's why

Eighty-five, indeed! Bitch was 150 if he was a day!

His lover, Jacques de Bascher, showing nipple.

That outfit looks derivative

Jacques was cute. Hard to believe they never consummated the relationship.

Any word on how the estate splitting went down?

Not a word as far as I can tell, R343.