In 2015, Karl Lagerfeld (September 10, 1933* – February 19, 2019) was in Toronto to promote a condo-related project and he spoke to CBC about his first visit to Canada, his drive to create and why no one can learn from Karl Lagerfeld other than himself.

Karl Lagerfeld was known as the creative director of the French luxury fashion house Chanel (from 1983 until his death), as well as creative director of the Italian fur and leather goods fashion house Fendi and his own eponymous fashion label. He was well recognized around the world for his white hair, black sunglasses, fingerless gloves, and high starched collars.

* There is enigma surrounding the German-born designer that even his age was a point of mystery for decades, with reports he had two birth certificates, one dated 1933 and the other 1938.

In 2013, Lagerfeld told the French magazine "Paris Match" he was born in 1935, but in 2019 his assistant still didn't know the truth -- telling The Associated Press he liked "to scramble the tracks on his year of birth -- that's part of the character."

"It's not that I lie, it's that I don't owe the truth to anyone," he told French Vogue in an interview.


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