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Karl Lagerfeld on Why Fashion Rivals who Don't Draw Their Own Designs are 'Fake Intellectuals'

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  • Tamara Abraham

"The designer refuses to name names but said his success was down to him sketching everything himself and, in the notoriously catty fashion world, being 'quite polite.'"

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