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When I was very young, at the beginning my business was to work more than the others to show them their pointlessness.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Karl Lagerfeld
Age: 85 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 10
Died: 2019
Died: February 19
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Fashion Designer
Fashion Photographer
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Hamburg
Freie und Hansestadt
Karl Otto Lagerfeldt
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