Karl Lagerfeld
* some of the many bookshelves in Lagerfeld's appartment (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rejeanpellerin/461058650/)Karl Lagerfeld is a book lover.
Suddenly I like the man so much better. Apparently he has a personal book collection reaching the numerical heights of 230,000. Who couldn't like a man like that?
And he also has a book shop... forget about the fashion emperor/god he is revered as. A bookshop is so much more then that. I'm still trying to figure out why he called it 7L though...
Ok, I just did some research using the unsurpassable google and Lagerfeld is...
"An avid reader in four languages—English, French, German, and Italian—Lagerfeld also publishes books; his imprint, a division of the German house Steidl, is called Édition 7L, and a few years ago he opened a bookstore, also called 7L, in space adjoining his photo studio, on the Rue Lille. Édition 7L has published forty-one titles, on subjects that range across his many interests, which include (besides fashion and photography) literature, humor, advertising, music, newspapers, mythology, illustration, and architecture. Some of these books have a bracing impracticality: an anthology of the first ten years of the magazine Interview weighed forty-three kilos and was packaged in a wooden trolley of Lagerfeld’s devising."
"In the now: where Karl Lagerfeld lives" The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/03/19/070319fa_fact_colapinto
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