Karl Lagerfeld was a dream to observe, a spiky king of reinvention and a master of modern fashion

[#Dobe~ClasSy!☠]

en Karl Lagerfeld was born in Germany to a wealthy industrialist family in 1934, his mother Elizabeth, a lapsed Protestant who had been told by a fortune-teller that her son would become a bishop, promptly forbade him from stepping inside a church when he was growing up.

Or that’s what he said. He was as inventive and mischievous a yarn spinner as Colette - it’s only now that he has died, that we can be certain of his age. It made him a challenging and slippery interview subject - which was entirely deliberate. In 2007 he told me he was saving “all the best bits” for his autobiography, to be published posthumously. At least we have that to look forward to.