Sea Birds Flying Through this Hazy Place · May 28, 01:38 AM

(this photo, and all of the site is for the #1 Blake Thomas)

Reading The Beautiful Fall by Alicia Drake helped me rediscover the genuine kindness buried within me. The love I have for humanity, not a focus on material wealth or for possessing people or things, is apparent, and it feels great. I loved reading about Karl Lagerfeld too. What a driven person! I saw so much of myself in him. Walk into a boutique in NOLITA or into the Prada store, a whore house or a corner store for a beer, smile, think of me. I was there. It’s all part of this world, my world, your world. Just because someone has had it hard, or had it really good…I’ll let you, the person reading this, finish the sentence.

Following are some lines from the story I’d like you to read because they are important.

Karl Lagerfeld worked with Graziella Fontana at Chloe. “It was during Karl’s time at Chloe that the rumour began making the rounds of Paris that Gaby Aghion was the inspiration behind Durrell’s magnetic heroine Justine.”

Antonio Lopez
“What made Antonio’s vision radical was that, for him, ethnic, blonde, black, working-class, homosexual, transvestite and transsexual, man or woman could all be glamorous and beautiful. His fantasies were not limited to well-bred white ladies. Paris fashion had never contemplated this possibility before.”

Fashion changing from hemlines to attitude

167 According to Patrick Hourcade, ‘Karl is by nature someone who needs to evolve, that is why he is so at ease in fashion, which is a world that is in a constant state of evolution. He doesn’t want stability; change is his life-motor. He is not unstable, he is insatiable, hence the need for nourishment all around him.’

227“The epiphany of the young child seeing before him the possibility of another life is a key construct in Karl Lagerfeld’s life story.”

236 ‘I have no opinion whatsoever about my influence; who cares?’ ‘What is important is what I will do, not what I did in the past.’

p.245 ‘Thadee liked to mix up a line of coke and a line of heroin and take them together. ‘It’s very nice; what’s nice about it is you don’t have to drink, you are in such a good mood you don’t actually take anything else for the rest of the evening. So it’s quite economical and healthy in a way.’

307 “It sounds so obvious now, over 20 years later, now that so many designers rely on a similar formula for success. But it was not so obvious in1983. Karl created the blueprint for this post-modern process of fashion design and for breathing new life into an existing but moribund fashion house.” Re: Chanel

310 ‘I have my spies…my sneaks and antennae who are out there picking up information for me, but who themselves don’t know how to give concrete expression to that information,’ said KL in 1984.

310 “It seemed the only way Karl progressed in a friendship was by severing it completely.”

320 ‘Fashion eats people up,’ says Patrick McCarthy, ‘and you know what? It attracts people that are willing to be eaten up. It is a very self-destructive industry, which is probably what keeps it alive. It eats its young.’

— Young Philosopher

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