Once, one famous fashion designer said that diet is the only type of struggle where a person loses and remains a winner. The author of this aphorism is the inimitable Karl Lagerfeld.
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The leading fashion designer of the famous Chanel House knows firsthand what excess weight is and how to deal with it. In 2002, the Great Charles (as couturiers call in Europe) appeared before the public in an updated state. For thirteen months, the Kaiser dropped more than forty kilograms. This achievement was not easy for the fashion designer, because at that time his age was close to 70. Karl Lagerfeld’s diet did not suggest sweet and starchy foods. In tandem with a champion for a healthy lifestyle, Jean-Claude Udre, a fashion designer whose weight was then more than a centner, began to lose weight rapidly and soon reached his goal of seventy kilograms. And in 2002, at the French Fashion Week, the “new” Karl Lagerfeld made a splash. A photo of the fashion designer was flooded with all the pages of famous and little-known tabloids. The audience looked at each other in perplexity, and couturier fans froze with delight. It is noteworthy that it was not health problems that prompted the Kaiser to lose weight, but a simple desire to wear fashionable, beautiful and comfortable clothes of minimum size. And he succeeded brilliantly.
3D Diet
Inspired by the success, Karl Lagerfeld decided to write a book on the fight against excess weight. Considerable help in this matter was given to him by his nutritionist Jean-Claude Udre. The product was much better than expected. Full of pungency and irony, a book called Diet 3D is available for purchase in stores around the world. In addition to ways to reduce weight, the pages of the publication contain many recipes and other important tips. As the Great Karl himself notes, for those who regret the impossibility of wearing beautiful and fashionable clothes, this book is not needed. It is designed for those who really decided to learn the art of diet.
Childhood and creative skills development
Karl Lagerfeld was born on September 10, 1938 in the German city of Hamburg. His family was distinguished by an enviable wealth and stood out sharply from the others. The boy's father made a fortune by supplying canned milk to Europe. Enough money allowed Karl to get an excellent education. Since childhood, the boy has been studying foreign languages and is fluent in English, French and Italian. As Great Karl himself admits, a huge role in the formation of his personality was played by his mother. She instilled in the boy a love of fashion, good perfume and art. It was Frau Lagerfeld who became the person thanks to whom her son first sat down at the easel.
See Paris and become famous
However, under the same roof with his parents, the boy did not live long. At the age of fourteen, Paris opens the door to the future famous fashion designer, who will soon become Karl Lagerfeld. In his youth, he studied exact sciences and was more than an exemplary student. But one day he decided to create “something” on paper. Located in the world capital of fashion, the boy had no other idea but to try to create his own sketch. The first test was more than successful. Christian Dior, Hubert Givenchy and Pierre Balman, who sat on the jury of the fashion sketching contest, recognized Lagerfeld's work as incomparable. Thus ended the ordinary and boring life of a sixteen-year-old boy. Now the gates to the adult and bohemian world of fashion have opened wide before him.
Opening the door
Carla invites Pierre Balman to work . For several years, the young man has been working in the workshop, improving his skills, at the same time studying the whole mechanism called the “world of fashion”.
In 1958, the House of Jean Patoux finds a new fashion designer, who became Karl Lagerfeld. In his youth, he was not at all afraid to experiment. And after five years, it becomes an invariable link in four modeling workshops at once: Fendi, Chloe, Charles Laurdan and Krizia. For each of the Houses, the Kaiser creates completely different collections. The huge talent of the young man became the very lever through which this trick was amazingly successful. In each collection, Great Karl managed to convey the mood and style inherent in this particular House. He did not in any way change the operating time established over the years, but only added his own, brighter ones to the well-known images.
Reviving a lost spirit
In 1971, the chair of the great Chanel House was empty: Gabriel Chanel left this world. Her heirs were looking for someone who could save and continue the endeavors of the Great Madame. All attempts were unsuccessful: the designers did not want to follow the path created by Gabriel, and radically changed the existing style. This did not suit brand owners. But then Karl Lagerfeld came to them. The maestro's collections so accurately conveyed the already seemingly forever lost spirit of Chanel that the world community burst into applause.
When the Great Karl turned 45 years old, a high-fashion clothing line was transferred under his leadership . A year later, the Kaiser began to manage all areas of the Chanel House. Due to his inhuman ability to work, the fashion designer quickly won the love and respect of critics, models and the whole public. His hard work can be envied. Karl Lagerfeld works about twenty hours a day. He makes about seven sketches a day. This is more than two and a half thousand drawings a year.
Karl’s Passion
In addition to creating clothing collections, the famous maestro has other hobbies. The public knows three main activities that Karl Lagerfeld enjoys: perfumes, drawings, photos and books. The creation of fragrances, mentor Chanel calls his passion, "basic instinct." As the Great Karl notes, for him there is nothing more perfect than combining various notes of smells, pondering compositions and placing a certain emphasis on this or that component of perfume. The following aromas can be called his personal achievements without exaggeration:
1. Perfumes Lagerfeld, made specifically for Chloe.
2. Photo, KL (Karl Lagerfeld) and JAKO, released under their own couturier brand.
If many know about the sketches made by the maestro, then only a small part of people are aware that photography is another passion of the Kaiser. As the Great Karl himself notes, he sees the world as if through a camera lens. For him, a photo is a peculiar way of reflecting reality. It is noteworthy that we create all the pictures for advertising of each of the collections with our own hands.
Personal life and other hobbies
Another passion of the great fashion designer is books. His parents instilled a love of reading. Any couturier trip is marked by the acquisition of a tome that is significant and valuable for Lagerfeld, whether it is a volume of Dostoevsky or a collection of Chinese poetry. Even the best library will envy his collection of hardcover books. In 2000, Great Charles sold part of his books on French art at Christei's charity auction.
If much is known about the creative successes of the mentor at Chanel House, then his personal life is hidden behind dark sunglasses. Bleached gray hair, laid in a low tail, an unmatched suit, mittens on his hands, a stately gait - this man can not be given more than sixty. It is a "tidbit" not only for women, but also for men. However, the only person the Great Charles is interested in is his cat Chupette. She is a key member of the couturier family. Chupette takes food at the same table with the host. She has two maids, she sleeps on pillows. The fashion designer admits that he would not mind linking himself to a beloved animal.
Karl Lagerfeld never regrets anything. He does not recall youth, but lives today.