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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

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Karl Lagerfeld
Age: 85 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 10
Died: 2019
Died: February 19
Collector
Costume Designer
Dressmaker
Fashion Designer
Fashion Photographer
Film Director
Photographer
Postage Stamp Designer
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Hamburg
Freie und Hansestadt
Karl Otto Lagerfeldt
Karl Otto Lagerfeld
Karl-Otto Lagerfeld
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