The definitive biography of a man with a genius for fashion and multiple lives.

A king of autofiction, Karl Lagerfeld was the first narrator of his own life. a A cleverly constructed persona, he spent his life reinventing himself, fleeing a painful past. A genius creator who was extravagant, insatiable, and lonely, he underwent a thousand metamorphoses. This biography retraces his multiples lives, and through them, a history of fashion. The fruit of much inquiry, it is based on long two interviews with Lagerfeld and the accounts of those close to him, as well as figures from the fashion world.