3. He said singer Adele was on the fat side (this from a man, who himself lost more than 40kg in 2001).
4. He lost more than 40kg because he wanted to fit into one of Hedi Slimane's Dior Homme suits.
5. He turned his beloved Birman cat Choupette into a social-media sensation and celeb in her own right.
6. Lagerfeld's first big gig was as a junior assistant to Pierre Balmain.
7. Lagerfeld was also a talented photographer. He photographed Mariah Carey for V Magazine, the 2011 Pirelli calendar: Mythology, and more.
Oh! And he had like a gazillion iPods. To which, he had a limited-edition Louis Vuitton trunk case designed just for his collection.
He dressed first ladies, ALL the supermodels, singers, editors, and starlets. He was, it seemed, a man of the now, always in the loop, totally of the zeitgeist, or, in fact, ahead of it. We shall miss that.
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