German version
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| Karl Lagerfeld (Source: FAZ, originator: Helmut Fricke) |
Many tears will flow and the Seine will
overflow its banks.
Anyone who has ever seen Karl Lagerfeld at work
has been deeply impressed by his good taste and the stylistic
confidence with which he knows how to say every minute what fits
together or not. The Fendi and Chanel fashion houses in particular
have been happy to rely on his judgement for decades. Karl Lagerfeld
once said of himself in an interview that he could only draw a
little, otherwise he wouldn't do anything! That was a little too much
understated.
To say that Karl Lagerfeld had talent was not enough.
You can't measure how big and how deep the universe was that Karl
Lagerfeld had in his head. But it was certainly immeasurable in every
respect. His multiple libraries with an unbelievably large number of
illustrated books give at best an idea of what Lagerfeld had seen
and, above all, what he could imagine. One had the feeling that
everything Karl Lagerfeld had ever seen and experienced was an
inspiration for him. But above all he had the view. His photographs
give us an impression of what he looked at and how he saw. And yet
they will only be able to reflect a fraction of what he imagined in
his innermost being. It's not unlikely that the world wasn't really
enough for someone like Karl Lagerfeld. Some of what he did, or
rather "staged", did not seem to be of this world. In this
respect, Karl Lagerfeld enriched everything.
Karl Lagerfeld was also
a witty interlocutor. When he used his German mother tongue,
everything he said came across undeniably in his flippant Hanseatic
manner. He babbled how his muzzle had grown. He did not mince his
words and spoke about things as he saw and felt them. This could be
funny, lively and entertaining for the knowledgeable. But the
ignorant had to turn away in shame.
Karl Lagerfeld was also the best
example of how the mind can be enriched by mastering foreign
languages. Spiritual boundaries fall, worlds come together. Lagerfeld
set an example, even though he had to live in France for professional
reasons. But the most important thing we have to learn from Karl
Lagerfeld is that from a certain level there are no more borders.
