Merci Karl

One of the legendary designer’s ex-assistants, 37-year-old Arnaud Maillard, wrote a tell-all about his personal experience working for Lagerfeld after he was fired in 2005. Lagerfeld is characterized as extremely fickle and narcissistic by Maillard.
Maillard maintains that he has the utmost respect for the Kaiser, but that he wanted to reveal another side of the famed designer noting that he is “an unbelievable narcissist. He needs an eternity to get ready in the morning. He takes photos of himself at every photo shoot and puts them everywhere. He surrounds himself with a kind of royal court, and nobody disagrees with him. Wherever he goes, there is Pepsi-Cola in a Baccarat crystal glass waiting for him and it gets replaced every 30 minutes. It's like the 18th century.”