Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld’s personal items to be put up for auction

German fashion legend, former creative director of Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld’s personal items will be up for auction at the end of the year. He died at the age of 85 in February 2019.

 New York City-based jewellery art and collectables broker Sotheby’s, in an Instagram post announced that it will hold the series of eight auctions this autumn across Monaco, Paris and Colognewill. The auctions will ‘ bring the great late designer’s most personal collection to the market, from the art he lived with to the items in his wardrobe’. 

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 “As surprising and multifaceted as the designer himself, the auctions will offer an anthology of his personal taste, with the more than one thousand lots encompassing fine art, design, fashion and personal ephemera, illuminating the fashion titan’s life as a designer, decorator, photographer and collector.”

The auctions will take place in Monaco on December 3, 4 and 5, and in Paris on December 14 and 15. There will also be two online auctions, from November 26 to December 16.

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Sotheby’s further said that Karl Lagerfeld was “a brand unto himself”.

“Capturing the imagination of the fashion world with his distinctive look and inimitable presence, he continually rewrote the rulebook, and stayed ahead of the game.”

The designer’s career spanned five decades. His personal items will include clothing, tableware, his cars, among other things. 

Lagerfeld was the artistic director of Fendi, Chanel and Chloe, the Sotheby’s caption said. He then launched his own ready-to-wear-collection. 

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The designer went on to become “the guiding figure of the luxury industry that he helped to build”.

According to the Sotheby’s website, the items include a portrait of the designer by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, three Rolls Royces, the iconic leather Mitaines that he wore for the last 20 years and a selection of suit jackets by Dior, Saint Laurent, KL, Comme des Garçons and Martin Margiela