Update on the late Karl Lagerfeld from the WSJ from a biography from his friend, Thomas Middleton.
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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…
