The Chanel resort show in Cuba next month may be Karl Lagerfeld’s last bow on the runway, fashion insiders whisper.
“He’s really tired,” a Paris friend of Lagerfeld’s told me. “He’s not doing well and he’s ready to stop.”
Lagerfeld has long been discreet about his age, but according to biographer Alicia Drake, he will turn 83 in September. (A Lagerfeld Web site, karl.com, shaves 5 years off of that.)The Kaiser famously said that he would never retire. “Why should I stop working?” he told VogueTV in 2012. “If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.”
Coco Chanel died in 1971 at 87 while still at the helm of the company. Lagerfeld took over in 1983.
