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I don't want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven't done. There's no again. There's only the future. I hate the past - especially my own past.

Karl Lagerfeld

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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
Publisher
Hamburg
Freie und Hansestadt
Karl Otto Lagerfeldt
Karl Otto Lagerfeld
Karl-Otto Lagerfeld
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