The brands that Karl built
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
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🗓️ 25 February 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
This week, the kid from Hamburg who grew up to become one of the most powerful forces in global fashion. Karl Lagerfeld built not one but three hugely successful brands. After his death last week at the age of 85, we're exploring the flaws, quirks and legacy of this complicated man with the help of Fiachra Gibbons, culture editor at Agence France-Presse and long-time observer of 'the Kaiser'. We also discuss Europe's rising problem with anti-Semitism, some good news for Serbia's gay first couple, and how to make it big in Finland.
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| 0:00.0 | Dominic Kramer. |
| 0:17.2 | Yes. |
| 0:18.6 | Kind, talented, intelligent, handsome, fragrant Dominic Kramer. How's Kind, talented, intelligent, handsome, fragrant, |
| 0:22.6 | Dominic Kramer. How's it going? Fragrant? I'm just, this is me trying to be nice to you because |
| 0:28.1 | I had a couple of pieces of feedback that I was mean to you on the podcast last week. So I would |
| 0:32.6 | just like to apologize and say that from now on, I am going to be nothing but sweet and nice to you I mean firstly |
| 0:39.1 | you were mean to me on the podcast last week you were mean to me on the podcast every week um but |
| 0:44.8 | i yeah i'm i'm grateful that you've had your ways pointed out to you and let's see how this goes |
| 0:52.6 | it feels really unnatural already. But you did call me |
| 0:55.8 | fragrant. I don't know where that came from. I was just looking for adjectives. As I told you, |
| 1:00.3 | it's that it feels really unnatural to me. I'm not good at being nice to you, but I am going to give |
| 1:03.8 | it a go. How's it going? What's happening in Amsterdam? It's fine. I feel that I became a little |
| 1:10.0 | bit more European this week after I swapped over my driving license from a British one to a Dutch one because of, well, you know why. |
| 1:18.1 | But did you have to take your test again or anything? |
| 1:19.7 | No, if you do it before the B word, then it's all fine. |
| 1:24.0 | And the main effect is that I was finally able to get rid of the horrible photo of me age 17 that I'd had on my British driving license. |
| 1:31.1 | Yes. |
| 1:31.6 | However many years. |
| 1:32.6 | Mine's terrible. |
| 1:33.6 | It's very pouty. |
| 1:34.7 | Are you going to swap yours? |
| 1:35.8 | It's one of the many things I need to get around to and haven't. |
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