Karl Lagerfeld left a long, accomplished, and complicated legacy behind him when he passed away last year at the age of 85.
Now, one of his old former friends and colleagues is sharing dark new revelations about the creative director’s upbringing. In an excerpt of his upcoming memoir, The Chiffon Trenches, obtained by the Daily Mail, former editor-at-large of Vogue André Leon Talley leveled claims that when Lagerfeld was young, his mother “strapped him in bed with leather restraints to stop him from eating at night.” Related: Andre Leon Talley Spills MAJOR Tea On Anna Wintour In His Upcoming Memoir The 70-year-old said the late German designer admitted his mother, Elisabeth Bahlmann, took extreme measures to curb his diet as a kid.
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