The Kult of Karl: If All Your Friends Jumped Off a Cliff, Would You Jump Too? Only if Karl Lagerfeld Told Us To.

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Karl Lagerfeld can get anyone to do anything, pretty much—fly around the world to attend a party, wear a wear a yeti suit in a heat wave, get his face shellacked on your fingernails.

But here is the man himself, swarmed by the party crowd, and snapping a photo at last night's Chanel party. Karl Lagerfeld: just like us. Kind of.
· Karl Lagerfeld's Chanel bash [WWD]