'A must-have for every aficionado!' - Vogue 'Kaiser sketches beautifully a picture of how an unsociable boy who loved to draw in the attic grew into Yves Saint Laurents competitor Especially touching is the detail about his partner and great love, Jacques de Bascher, a subject that has barely been touched on in print until now' - Times LUXX 'A satisfyingly rounded portrait of a designer who remained largely mysterious during his lifetime' - Financial Times, Books of the Year 'Aims to give a fuller account of the designer and is complete with some brilliant black-and-white (obviously) photography of Lagerfeld throughout his life' - i newspaper
Alfons Kaiser is an editor at German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and is responsible for the section "Germany and the World" as well as for the monthly Frankfurter Allgemeine magazine. He prefers to write about fashion.