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Karl Lagerfeld, his personal collection up for auction at Sotheby’s

With over a thousand lots for eight auctions in the locations of Sotheby’s of Munich, Paris and Cologne scheduled between this and next year, the Karl Lagerfeld collection will leave the designer’s residences to start a new life in the world. Collectors are already rubbing their hands and, depending on their interests but above all based on the size of their wallet, they will be able to choose from design objects, sculptures and posters, clothes and personal effects that tell the life lived as a work of art. Kaiser’s art of fashion.

Disappeared in February 2019, Karl Lagerfeld, who would have turned 88 on 10 September, began working as a stylist in 1957 for the maison Jean Patou. He immediately stands out and in 1964 he switches to Chloé. Has been artistic director of Fendi since 1965 and of Chanel since 1983 while it was the following year that he founded the brand that bears his name. Lagerfeld’s boundless ingenuity was not limited only to imagining dream clothes but he ventured into interior design, photography and collecting. In fact, the auction was defined as «an anthology of the stylist’s personal taste who became the leading figure of the luxury industry he helped build ».

A substantial part of what will arrive on the market is made up of works of art, furniture spanning multiple eras and styles and German advertising posters of the twentieth century collected in more than thirty years but you can also find household linen as well as his three Rolls Royces alongside figurines of Tokidoki and Tiffany Cooper, Fendi key rings and iPhone cases.

Fetishists of Lagerfeld’s inimitable style will surely be pleased to know that more than 200 pairs of gloves will be banned: those fingerless leather models that she has been wearing for twenty years, becoming one of her most recognizable features. They also come from her wardrobe a selection of jackets by Dior, YSL, Karl Lagerfeld, Comme des garçons and Martin Margiela and a good number of valigie Goyard.

The details of the Kaiser’s legacy are not known exactly but if there is a news that still causes a sensation today, it seems that one of the beneficiaries was the beloved cat Choupette. The Burmese, according to what she posts on Instagram, is fine (she celebrated 10 years on August 15th) but does not inform us if the proceeds from the auction will also go to her. Among the lots, however, we know that there are also his dishes for sale. A funny and expensive heirloom to be awarded.

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