Designer Karl Lagerfeld hates burials and will be cremated without ceremony

Karl Lagerfeld will be cremated without ceremony and his ashes will probably be scattered with those of his mother and his lover, said his label Wednesday.

"Her wishes will be respected," said spokeswoman Karl Lagerfeld. AFP a day after the death of the legendary designer, 85 years old.

The "Kaiser", renowned for his rapier spirit, had long insisted that he "prefer to die" than to be buried. "I asked to be cremated and that my ashes be scattered with those of my mother … and those of Choupette (her cat), if she dies before me," he said at the time of One of his last interviews.
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Lagerfeld had previously said that his ashes would be mixed with those of his longtime lover, French dandy Jacques de Bascher, who died of AIDS in 1989.
He entrusted to Bascher's biographer, Marie Ottavi, that he had kept half of his ashes so that they would be reunited at the end again. The creator born in Germany had arranged them "in a secret place, one day they will be added to mine," he told Ottavi.

Lagerfeld fell in love with Bascher's dashing at 19 and kept him until he died at 38 years old. It was despite the fact that de Bascher, a notorious racist party animal, had an affair with Lagerfeld's great rival, Yves Saint Laurent. The other half of De Bascher's ashes was given to his family, the French daily Le Monde reported Wednesday.

Lagerfeld thought the funeral "was horrible, I just want to disappear like the animals of the virgin forest, it's horrible to clutter people with your remains," he said. declared on French television in 2015.

to be mourned at a grandiose burial as the one that France bestowed on his rock legend Johnny Hallyday in 2017. "What a horror!" Said Lagerfeld. "With all the clashes in the Hallyday family (despite the will of the singer), the funeral was a joke."

The tribute paid to the creator of the workhorse, the most prolific of the last century, continued Wednesday as fans had left white roses in front of Chanel's main Parisian boutique. among the men. "Karl was brilliant, he was mean, he was funny, he was generous and he was deeply kind. I will miss her so much, "she added.

It is likely that her absence dominates Paris women's fashion week, which begins Monday.Chanel, now headed by her friend and former studio director Virginie Viard, who took office as creative director on Tuesday, will unveil her fall-winter ready-to-wear collection on March 5, the last day of the show.