Fashion Icons Encyclopedia. Karl Lagerfeld.

Karl Lagerfeld, popularly known as the "King of Fashion," was a multidisciplinary designer and artist who was regarded as one of history's most influential.

Lagerfeld, who was born in 1933 into a noble German family, had a prolific and precocious career as a designer: at the age of 12, he moved to France to pursue his education, and at the age of 16, after leaving school, he began working for Pierre Balmain.

He devoted his life to fashion and had a long career as a result. He established himself as the great reference that he was as creative director at Chanel – house for which he also worked out commercial campaigns as a photographer – and solidified his way of perceiving the world at Fendi, where he continued to work until his death.

The Kaiser, as he was known, loved to observe rather than be observed, which is why he always wore sunglasses and kept his hair in a tight ponytail. An image as vital and inseparable from Chanel as Coco herself, the brand's originator - she began creating at the beginning of the 1980s. On February 19, 2019, he passed away while still working. After 36 years at the helm of the world's most important fashion house, his final parade, which he could no longer enjoy, was a tribute in which some of his muses - including Penelope Cruz, with whom he had been very close in the last months of his life and who dedicated the issue of Vogue Spain to which he was a guest editor- paid tribute to him.

Lagerfeld became the most searched fashion person on Google the same year, and LVMH created the Karl Lagerfeld Prize.

He planned, photographed, edited, and illustrated, among other things, like few others.