LVMH mourns loss of “the most exceptional talent”
22/02/2019
On hearing of the designer’s death, LVMH chief executive, Bernard Arnault, said Karl Lagerfeld had helped to make Paris “the fashion capital of the world”.
Mr Lagerfeld first came to prominence among Paris designers when, in 1955, he entered, and won, a competition for coat designs, organised by the International Wool Secretariat. This helped him secure the position of artistic director at Jean Patou and, from 1965, as creative director of Fendi. Other brands he worked with later include Chanel and his own Lagerfeld brand.
“We owe him a great deal,” Mr Arnault said. “His taste and talent were the most exceptional I have ever known. He honoured the LVMH group with an extraordinarily stimulating creative and entrepreneurial friendship. I will always remember his immense imagination, his ability to conceive new trends for every season, his inexhaustible energy, the virtuosity of his drawings, his carefully guarded independence, his encyclopaedic culture, and his unique wit and eloquence. The death of this dear friend deeply saddens me, my wife and my children. We loved and admired him deeply. Fashion and culture has lost a great inspiration.”
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