Paris pays tribute to designer of ‘genius and talent’
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THEY call him the “kaiser,” and Karl Lagerfeld came as close as you can come to being crowned king of Paris yesterday when the French capital awarded the fashion designer its highest honour.
The 83-year-old was given the Grand Vermeil medal by Mayor Anne Hidalgo, who called the legendary German-born creator “an immense talent and a wonderful person.”
“Paris loves you — you are Paris,” she told him under a massive 38-meter model of the Eiffel Tower that Lagerfeld built as the centerpiece of his Chanel haute couture show.
“Your genius and talent has made Paris even more magic, creative and beautiful,” Hidalgo said of the designer, whose ageless style and acid tongue have endeared him to generations of Parisians.
“I am a foreigner and we foreigners see Paris and France with another eye,” he told a cheering crowd.
Lagerfeld said that a “new day is dawning in France” after the election of President Emmanuel Macron, its youngest head of state in more than a century. Everyone is in love with Paris again, with France, and wants to be here,” said the designer, who has lived and worked since 1952 in the city where he and the young Yves Saint Laurent became firm friends.
Lagerfeld’s Chanel show under the dome of the Grand Palais, dominated by his Eiffel Tower, was a celebration of Paris, with a small army of more than 60 top models on the runway.
The designer went strong on Chanel’s classic tweed look with subtly inset crystals for his winter coats and suits. Shoulders were much more rounded, and all the models bar the final bride wore brimmed hats somewhere between a boater and a bowler.
As at Dior the day before, Lagerfeld went for more sombre grey hues, mixing them with black, purple and dark blue tones, lifted by the reflective sheen of tiny inlaid crystals and ankle and knee-length boots.
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