{"id":3607,"date":"2013-04-27T20:21:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T16:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=3607"},"modified":"2013-04-27T20:21:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T16:21:52","slug":"chanel-designer-karl-lagerfeld-finally-reveals-his-age-as-77-and-admits-he-had-no-idea-when-he-was-born-until-his-mother-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=3607","title":{"rendered":"Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld FINALLY reveals his age as 77 &#8211; and admits he had no idea when he was born until his mother died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ch2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3602\" alt=\"ch2\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ch2.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ch2.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ch2-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ch2-437x300.jpg 437w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a>His age has long been a mystery, but fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has finally revealed that he is 77.<\/p>\n<p>Inviting people to play a guessing game, he held a 70th birthday bash in 2008 and a party celebrating his 79th four years later.<\/p>\n<p>But in an interview with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.parismatch.com\/Tags\/Karl-Lagerfeld\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Paris Match<\/b><\/a> the white-haired Chanel creative director stated that his real birthdate is September 10, 1935.<\/p>\n<p>He said that for decades he didn&#8217;t know exactly what year he was born.<\/p>\n<p>It was only when his mother died that he discovered it was 1935 and not 1938 as stated on documentation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;[She] changed the [year]. It was easier to make a 3 or an 8 &#8230; I don&#8217;t know why she did it,&#8217; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lagerfeld, who grew up in Hamburg, Germany, and is now based in Paris, is known for being a man who carefully crafts his public image.<\/p>\n<p>He is also likes to stick to a standard uniform consisting of dark sunglasses, a high-collared white shirt, and fingerless leather gloves.<\/p>\n<p>Today he leads the design teams at both Chanel and Fendi along with his own eponymous clothing label.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Mr Lagerfeld&#8217;s latest revelation regarding his age, Wikipedia and Voguepedia still state that he is 79 years old &#8211; leading some to question if he is telling the truth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His age has long been a mystery, but fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has finally revealed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}