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Karl Lagerfeld: A life in pictures

The legendary fahion designer has died in Paris at the age 85

Tue 19 Feb 2019

Karl Lagerfeld appears at the end of his Spring/Summer women's ready-to-wear fashion show for Chanel during Paris Fashion Week in October 2012. Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters

Karl Lagerfeld as young student in about 1953/54 posing with a model during the presentation of a cocktail coat as can been seen in the sketch in the background. Photograph: AFP

Karl Lagerfeld in November 1973 in Krefeld, Germany. Photograph: Willi Bertram/AP

Karl Lagerfeld posing next to a model presenting a dress from his Chloe collection in May, 1977. Photograph: Werner Baum/AP

Karl Lagerfeld at the unveiling of his "KL" fragrance in Hamburg, in July 1982. Photograph: Werner Baum/AFP

Karl Lagerfeld with French actor Carole Bouquet and model Ines de la Fressange during the Spring-Summer ready-to-wear fashion show in Paris in October, 1986. Photograph: Pierre Verdy/AFP

Karl Largerfefld with Princess Diana and Elton John at the memorial mass for designer Gianni Versace in Milan's gothic cathedral, in July 1997. Photograph: Luca Bruno/AP

Karl Lagerfeld at the opening of an exhibition at Rome's National Galley of Modern Art in October 1985 to celebrate the 20-year-collaboration between Lagerfeld and the Fendis. Photograph: Massimo Sambucetti/AP

In the Chanel fashion house with Ines de la Fressange in March 1987. Photograph: Pierre Guillaud/AFP

Karl Lagerfeld in his fashion studio in March 1987. Photograph: Pierre Guillaud/AFP

Karl Lagerfeld acknowledges at the end of his show for Chanel as part of his high fashion collection in Paris in January 1994. Photograph: Gerard Julien/AFP

Karl Lagerfeld joins models (from left) Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Claudia Schiffer after the presentation of his 1996 Spring-Summer ready-to-wear fashion collection for Chanel in Paris. Photograph: Remy de la Mauviniere/AP

Karl Lagerfeld is applauded by Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell at the end of the Chanel 1997 Spring-Summer ready-to-wear collection presented in Paris. Photograph: Remy de la Mauviniere/AP

At the end of the presentation in Paris of Chanel's Spring-Summer 98 ready-to-wear collection in October 1997. Photograph: Peirre Verdy/AFP

Karl Lagerfeld acknowledges the audience at the end of his show for Lagerfeld Gallery during the Spring-Summer 2006 ready-to-wear collections in Paris, in October 2005. Photograph: Peirre Verdy/AFP

At his Fall-Winter collection 2013/2014 show during Paris Fashion Week in March, 2013. Photograph: Benoit Tessier/Reuters

On the catwalk with model Cara Delevingne at the end of his Autumn-Winter 2014-2015 women's ready-to-wear collection show for Chanel at the Grand Palais, which was transformed into a "Chanel Shopping Center" during Paris Fashion Week in March 2014. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo

With models at his 2014 show at Paris Fashion Week. Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters

Karl Lagerfeld at an exhibition at the Museum Folkwang in Essen, western Germany, in 2014. Photograph: Caroline Seidel/AFP

With Vogue's Anna Wintour at the 2015 British Fashion Awards at the London Coliseum, St Martin's Lane. Photograph: Ian West/PA Wire

Models present Karl Lagerfeld's Spring-Summer 2019 ready-to-wear collection for Chanel at the Grand Palais transformed as a beach scene during Paris Fashion Week on October 2nd, 2018. Photograph: Stephane Mahe/Reuters

Karl Lagerfeld appears at the end of his Spring-Summer 2019 women's ready-to-wear collection show for Chanel during Paris Fashion Week in October 2018. Photograph: Stephane Mahe/Reuters

KArl Largerfeld 1933-2019. Photograph: Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty Images

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