Karl Lagerfeld's Closest Confidant Talks About Cancer Fight

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Karl Lagerfeld kept his state of health hidden for a long time. His former confidant Virginie Viard now describes his recent years, hospital stays and the physical decay of the fashion tsar.

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Karl Lagerfeld kept his state of health secret for a long time. His former confidant Virginie Viard describes in her new autobiography his last years, hospital stays and the increasing physical decay.

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It is an insight like never before: The closest confidant of Karl Lagerfeld (†85), Virginie Viard, wrote in detail about the designer and his sufferings in her memoirs "Un respect. Une vie chez Chanel". Karl was ill with prostate cancer and hid this diagnosis as well as the extent to which the illness really took him away from the whole world. She particularly vividly describes his visit to the Paris studio on January 15, 2019. "Karl came very l…