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Baptiste Giabiconi & Karl Lagerfeld
Sep. 10th, 2013 10:01 am
Karl Lagerfeld (born Karl Otto Lagerfeldt on 10 September 1933 in Hamburg) is a German fashion designer, artist and photographer based in Paris. He has collaborated on a variety of fashion and art related projects, most notably as head designer and creative director for the fashion house Chanel. Lagerfeld has his own label fashion house, as well as the Italian house Fendi.Lagerfeld was born in Hamburg. He has claimed he was born in 1938, by Elisabeth (born Bahlman) and his Swedish father Otto Lagerfeldt. He is known to insist that no-one knows his real birth date: Interviewed on French television in February 2009, Lagerfeld said that he was "born neither in 1933 nor 1938." His older sister, Martha Christiane (a.k.a. Christel), was born in 1931. Lagerfeld also has an older half-sister, Thea, from his father's first marriage. His original name was Lagerfeldt (with a "t"), but he later changed it to Lagerfeld as "it sounds more commercial."
Lagerfeld grew up as the son of a wealthy businessman from Hamburg who was introducing condensed milk (Glücksklee-Milch GmbH) to Germany; his mother is from Berlin. According to Alicia Drake, Lagerfeld's mother, Elisabeth Bahlmann, was a lingerie saleswoman in Berlin when she met her husband and married him in 1930.
After attending a private school, Lagerfield finished his secondary education at the Lycée Montaigne in Paris, where he majored in drawing and history.
At the time, he had also been maintaining a design contract with the Japanese firm Isetan, to create collections for both men and women through 30 licenses; had a lingerie line in the US, produced by Eve Stillmann; was designing shoes for Charles Jourdan, sweaters for Ballantyne, and worked with Trevira as a fashion adviser.
Karl Lagerfeld is a German fashion designer, artist and photographer based in Paris. He has collaborated on a variety of fashion and art related projects. In February 2011, there was the breaking news that Lagerfeld, age 77, was set to marry his long time boyfriend, 20 years old Baptiste Giabiconi, in summer 2011 at Karl’s 10 acre estate he purchased in 2008 on Grand Isle, Vermont. Later it was reported that Giabiconi was dating Kate Perry, but they apparently broke up in June 2012.
Evening Ensemble, House of Chanel, fall/winter 1990/91
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I asked to all the authors joining the GayRomLit convention in Atlanta in October (
Here is the Bestsellers List on Amazon I'm referring to for the challenge:
1) Lessons Learned (Assassin-Shifters 19) by Sandrine Gasq-Dion