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Karl Lagerfeld's guide to Life
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Written from the perspective of "Karl Lagerfeld"; Karl Lagerfeld's guide to life is his observations on Fashion, People, and anything else that comes to mind. Guests who write on the blog include Fake Anna Wintour and Fake Yves Saint Laurent.
Recent Posts
Black Books
I found myself blockaded this morning- a deluge of books that I haven't had a librarian catalogue yet had fallen down, blocking both entrances to the chateau. I was "booked in", to play on the American phrase "snowed in". Thus, I couldn't actually ge...
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MAYBE THIS IS SOMETHING FOR SOMEONE YOUNG LIKE YOU TO WORK OUT....
There Is No Time (B is for Budgets)
This year, I have cut back from having four butlers to only two. I got rid of everything gold that I own, and replaced it with silver. I’ve only bought three hundred and sixty two suits, almost half of what I’d purchased in the same time period l...
A Fairy Tale
Once upon a time there was a frog:One day, a Princess kissed the frog:And turned the frog into a ninteen year old dropout who enrolled into the military Pea:The readers of the frog were not very impressed!...
Karl\'s Little Rule Book
There's fashion journalism and then there's fashion journalism. Cathy Horyn, Robin Givhan and Suzy Menkes fall into the latter camp. Amy Odell et al fall into the former. The problem with fashion becoming a "popular mass culture" thing, with the adve...
A History Lesson
The "house of concrete money", Margiela, will not have a creative director/designer replacing Mr. Margiela after his departure several months ago. Writes the wonderful Suzy Menkes in the IHT: "Ever since Karl Lagerfeld was tapped by Chanel in 1983, f...

