Karl Lagerfeld is "tired". The global star of haute couture was absent Tuesday of the two Chanel shows, held at the Grand Palais in Paris, a fact unpublished according to specialists. In an unusual way for parades, no words disturb, an organizer announced after the ultimate silhouette, a bride in swimsuit silver swimsuit and sail, that the octogenarian designer was not there. While assuring that he had to be present for the second parade at midday.
Karl Lagerfeld, who "felt tired," however did not come to greet the public after the second parade, said a Chanel spokeswoman. He "asked Virginie Viard, director of the creative studio of the house to represent him and come greet the guests alongside the bride," according to a statement from the house.
Already "very weakened" Monday, during a meeting with journalists. A veteran fashion critic said he has no memory of the creator missing a Chanel fashion show in Paris during his forty years in the fashion house.
Unpublished also for Le Figaro who assured on his site that the couturier, officially aged 85 (even if he maintains the vagueness on his date of birth), has "never failed" to greet the public after the parades since his debut at Chanel in 1983. The newspaper stresses that the designer was "already very weakened" Monday, during a meeting with his journalists.