Karl On Show

Fifty years at the helm of Fendi and more than three decades as the main man at Chanel not to mention countless independent projects, is something worth celebrating - which is precisely what The Bundeskunsthalle museum in Bonn will do next year when it holds a retrospective on the life and works of Karl Lagerfeld.

Karl Lagerfeld

Lagerfeld will be pleased to know that the exhibition is in safe hands. Lady Amanda Harlech, the designer's long-time friend, advisor and muse, will act as curator - with help from another of his friends, the publisher Gerhard Steidl - and chart Lagerfeld's rise from his young designer days to becoming one of the fashion industry's most feted figures.

The exhibition will run from March 27 to September 13.