Karl Lagerfeld was a German fashion designer and photographer best known as the creative power behind the modern revival of Chanel, the French fashion house founded by Coco Chanel in the early 20th century. Lagerfeld is credited with refreshing the brand, which had grown stale after the death of its founder in 1971. He reinterpreted the house’s vocabulary of tweeds, costume jewelry, little black dresses, and other defining features for the modern era, creating new shapes, color combinations, and uses for the distinctive logo. As Vogue succinctly described his close-to-40 years at Chanel, “he shrunk the classic tweed suit into crop tops and hot pants.”
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