Karl Lagerfeld obituary

Fashion designer who oversaw the transformation of Chanel into an intercontinental superbrandThe designer Karl Lagerfeld, who has died aged 85, explored and exploited couture, ready-to-wear and even mass-market fashion for more than 60 years. He had a genius for visual quotation and allusion, impersonation and pastiche, especially at Chanel, the fashion house he headed for more than three decades, and it made him the first postmodern fashionmeister.Nobody else stayed on top of so many labels for