Update on the late Karl Lagerfeld from the WSJ from a biography from his friend, Thomas Middleton.
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hat’s a lot of septiles While we have looked at a preponderance of septiles in people with health problems (Roger Ailes, Tsavertich Alexei) and even alcoholics (Fitzgerald), this time we see them in Alexander McQueen’s chart — he has 7. Marc Jones wrote that this preponderance indicated fatalistic thinking — that the person could not come with alternatives to a dark scenario and so blindly followed a predetermined path as though they were devoid of will and volition. For McQueen that proved inevitably, and horribly, true. Growing up in East London, McQueen realized somewhere in his teens he was a…
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Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, the great couturier , was born on August 19, 1883 in Saumur France at 4 PM. Her ascendant is 30 Sagittarius, a secret business meeting, apropos for someone who held court with the Nazi SS during the Second World War. It is also conjunct the Galactic Center (26 Sagittarius), that imaginary point in our Milky Way that the Sun and the Moon and all the stars revolve around. It seems rather apropos. While Madame never married and had no children, her 5th house is populated with the various tools for her creation: Mars (cutting fabric, the precision…
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The Legend Our header picture is of the young Karl Lagerfeld at Maison Chloe which is where he began his creative journey in 1964. He stayed there for twenty years, left for about seven years and then returned for another five before leaving permanently to head Maison Chanel (House of Chanel). As creative director of Chanel, the fashion house founded by Gabrielle Chanel, he redesigned their stodgy designs. Alain Wertheimer, the co-owner of Chanel as his grandfather, Pierre, founded the Maison with its namesake in 1924, asked Lagerfeld to breathe new life into the iconic French house, which had been in…
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Like Sigmund Freud that we just highlighted, the late Kate Spade also has a Martial handle to her larger bucket. Hers falls on the seventh house cusp highlighting how her partnership with her husband Andrew Spade, really brought her inspiration and drove her workaholic self into high gear. Partile to her mid-heaven so setbacks there, like the Frances Valentine line, would be detrimental to her ego particularly as Venus the planet of artists and fashion is conjunct it and Neptune (high celebrity fashion). The Moon in the twelfth house suggests that she was prone to depression and that may have…
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Hubert de Givenchy, the French couturier of romantic elegance for more than four decades, died on Saturday at his home outside Paris. He was 91. Philippe Venet, his longtime companion and a former couture designer, confirmed the death. de Givenchy had been the designer of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Grace Kelly and memorably Audrey Hepburn, in a little black dress, for the moviezation of Truman Capote’s “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” He was a devout Protestant, and regarded his talents as a gift from God through the vehicle of Cristóbal Balenciaga. In 1911 he founded a foundation for his mentor in Getaria, Spain.…
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Ralph Lauren is a mega US fashion house. What in his chart propelled him so?
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Tunisian Azzedine Alaia, died on Saturday, November 18, 2017 in his adopted home of Paris where he was one of the couture fashion doyens. His company said the cause was a heart attack. He was eight-two years old. Alaia was called a sculptor of the female form, notably worn by the First Lady Michelle Obama who once wore an Alaia sweated to Buckingham Palace (much to Oscar de la Renta’s horror) to Madonna and Lady Gaga and then in the 1995 comedy Clueless Cher, opposes a robber’s demand to hit the pavement, saying her red dress “is an Alaia. It’s like…
