"But I love to be alone," continues. But he is known for working late and when hetravels, his entourage are usually prepared to be on call 24 hoursa day. In an antechamber there is a table covered with black boxes displaying one piece of diamond jewellery, each with a pink sticky note attached - Geraldine Chaplin, Lagerfeld sits at a large white desk at one end of the room, the surface covered with crayons, iPhones and photographs from the show's press dossier. The show is atypical Karl concept, cannily and theatrically combining everythinghe needs to achieve - publicity for the exhibition, an earlyviewing of the jewellery, a whole autumn couture collection and atheatrical spectacular that will be shared by the relatively smallcouture audience via social media to take it global. Now other houses have followed suit, to the extent that there is scarcely a month when journalists are not required to travel around the world to an exotic destination to see a single, lavish, publicity-generating fashion show. Despite this, he claims that he no longer has a social life,by which he means a red-carpet schedule. He sits upright at his desk, his hands constantly movingas around him flutter the team - adjusting hems, tweaking hair,adding and taking away accessories - before standing in groupssilently awaiting his verdict as each girl appears. I like toteach myself.
Several are thechildren of women he has collaborated with for many years -Violette, Ines de la Fressange's daughter, whom he presents with anew iPod after her fitting ("She has not the same pocket money"),eyewear campaign and who comes in to kiss him goodbye in a skimpycotton vest and jeans, as tiny and kittenish as her mother was.myself but I am very well with other people's, like my famousarticle about him since they saw him dancing and singing with[ImageLibrary##1329965/Any##Description¬Hudson Kroenig withLagerfeld and Cara Delevingne at the spring/summer 2014 couture