found: His Karl Lagerfeld, c1986:CIP t.p. (Karl Lagerfeld)
found: Konkret abstrakt gesehen, 2007:biography (b. 1938, Hamburg; fashion designer and artistic photographer)
found: New York times WWW site, viewed Feb. 19, 2019(Karl Lagerfeld; Karl-Otto Lagerfeld; b. in Hamburg (His birth year was a matter of some dispute: was it 1938, as Chanel believed, or 1933, as a book by the writer Alicia Drake asserted? Or was it 1935, as he told the magazine Paris Match in 2013? The Hamburg Genealogical Society says he was born Sept. 10, 1935); his father moved his family to a small town in the north of Germany during World War II; Karl escaped to Paris as a teenager; d. Tuesday [Feb. 19, 2019], Paris, aged 85; the most prolific designer of the 20th and 21st centuries and a man whose career formed the prototype of the modern luxury fashion industry; he was also a photographer, whose work was exhibited at the Pinacothèque de Paris; a publisher, having founded his own imprint for Steidl, Edition 7L; and the author of a popular 2002 diet book, The Karl Lagerfeld diet, about how he had lost 92 pounds)
found: German Wikipedia, viewed Feb. 19, 2019(under Karl Lagerfeld: Karl Otto Lagerfeld; b. Sept. 10, 1933, Hamburg (cites birth announcement in Hamburger Nachrichten, Sept. 12, 1933); d. Feb. 19, 2019, Neuilly-sur-Seine)
