changing. digital. stores march. on t.w. . this is. from berlin the world of fashion paying tribute to karl lagerfeld who died today at the age of eighty five. i'm never satisfied and as long as you're never satisfied you keep going as soon as you decide you're content with yourself couldn't be any better it's time to call it there is no longer felt demanded excellence in his work until the very end tonight remembering the german fashion

designer who was arguably the world's most prolific most present and most recognizable also coming up the w.'s annual freedom of speech award. for risking her own life to report an expose the crimes of mexico's drug cartels and the corruption inside the mexican government. it's good to have you with us so we begin tonight with the end of one of the most creative forces in the world of fashion karl lagerfeld the head of fashion house chanel has died in paris at the age of eighty fall after he failed to appear at chanel's full couture show back in january rumors began to swirl that he was ill but the company said that he had just been feeling. or during

a career that spanned nearly seven decades the hamburg born designer became one of the most prolific in modern fashion. he was a superstar among fashion designers the unmistakable karl lagerfeld complete with iconic sunglasses and long powdered white hair. but german to sign has spent more than six decades working in fashion he was an all around a to stick talent who became a legend in his lifetime. believe men under there they were living in a very very fast paced age wasn't it and you have to keep up with things because if you don't you get behind in this profession you need to be healthy because the pace is tough if you don't have a lot of that suits me perfect tempo made for the fast life which we all want to put but if the hardest temple bit. karl lagerfeld was born in hamburg in one thousand nine hundred thirty three the son of a wealthy factory owner he moved to paris in one thousand to fifty three. or year

later he won an international fashion design competition with the cold that he just signed himself from then on he seemed unstoppable. like a folk work for the top aris in fashion brands it became artistic director of kuwait in one thousand nine hundred sixty three twenty years later he reinvigorated the then fly king brand chanel. district i think i'm lucky to be able to do what i want without having to worry about money nor do i have been a problem we don't need to worry about anything that's the luxury of should know that we can do what we want to for. extravagant presentations formed the high point of every paris fashion show the changing sides order signed by lagerfeld. he was also a publisher if we talk and a collector of antiques. writes he was the name of the game when it came to his many muses two among them but used to be coney in less than a. and cloudy. with my feet you have to have

a muses in this. there's a kind of how should i put it off but he does not turn over that happened so frequently. that you have to stay flexible because. despite being highly media savvy in his public life he kept his cards close to his chance when it came to his private life a notorious workaholic his constant aim was to improve to get better. but. i'm never satisfied and as long as you're never satisfied you keep going as soon as you decide you're content with yourself or couldn't be any better it's time to call it a day without. an iconic to sign a question history. here in the studio now the talk about the iconic fashion designer is fashion journalist blank among those blank is good to

have you on the show you were telling me that you actually knew you met corps i had the times to interview him in two thousand and fourteen he was on tune with the song around. town and and i got the chance to to met him and to ask him a few questions and i had to say he was quite a character was very difficult to talk to him at first or one was a difficult. i had impression of he was not a very talkative person and we also we were a lot of journalists that day under scandal so i think that was one of the reasons but while i told him and i thought that i met him. some years before i descend that he was. looking at all those old books and they said by the real. it is that and tell him that i met him there but i did and. closer and

if in and i think he was surprised and glad that i told him this anecdote and he was like more willing to talk to me and more open or friendly or it's interesting that we've heard this time and time again that people had met him they had interviewed him spent time with them but they really didn't feel like the they knew him well and that he always maybe kept maybe a veil over his own personality did you get the impression he was really like this he also told me in that interview that i'm a brand i'm not i'm a person but i'm also a brand myself you should hit don't be. like this you should call me i love a. label. you know the rumors about his health they had swirled after he didn't show up for the sure the chanel show back in

january. so people knew he was also eighty five years old but his death still came as a shock it was raining ash biking and this wall that he made in hamburg for the safety of our show and we thought back then that he was going to maybe to retire but he didn't and then it was really a shock when he didn't appear for the first time in thirty five years to say to say hi to the audience at the end of the show and it was just. the out there it was a shock and we all were suspicious because of brown said that he wasn't feeling well that very hard to imagine that he would have ever stopped working especially if he told you to call him label still was there may be the secret to his longevity and his success i mean he never stopped working yet. i was really

a hard worker person he was passionate but about what he was doing about his job and. we are talking about the man who will run organize and supervise every single detail for twelve show was a year needs and ways and yes i think one what. he's going to do was of course. this workaholic. personality but also his talent like he was really a creative person and. a t.v. to impress the audience and year after year for three decades you're physical with really that's exactly right blanket among those french journalists board we appreciate you coming in and sharing your memories with us thank you. well tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets across france to protest against a spate of semitic attacks the most recent is the swastikas on nearly

a hundred graves in a jewish cemetery in eastern france political parties urged people to attend the protests with the prime minister and more than half of his cabinet joining the rally in paris. a flood of outrage and emotion on costello the public thousands of protesters joined in solidarity with the nation's jews their anger magnified after the desecration of a jewish cemetery these paris protests are just one of over a dozen demonstrations nationwide in response to a surge in anti-semitic hate crimes. before joining the protests himself french president. laid a wreath at the paris holocaust memorial a tribute to the victims of anti-semitism. these are the images fueling the outrage at the jewish cemetery in the village of krotz and haim defaced with swastikas and other anti-semitic rashidi.

fisk rave referenced a neo nazi separatist group from the one nine hundred seventy s. president has vowed to bring the vandals to justice and stamp out anti semitism. if it could be. made it was mafia a group of individuals full of hate toward any has unfortunately done others have done before for too many years. the new tool i am here above all to express the solidarity of the whole nation of our shame to see that small of our determined will to be together in these moments or others during which some of us were injured and to express our complete determination in fighting anti semitism whatever shape it takes. france has the highest jewish population in europe with over a half a million but the country has struggled to prevent violence against jews figures released just last week showed there were over five hundred anti-semitic attacks in

france in twenty eight hundred seventy four percent increase on the previous year it seems anti-semitism is a daily occurrence these days but i cry every day i'm concerned every day i'm shocked every day i'm short of breath i sleep badly you don't get used to it. tuesdays incident is the second time a jewish cemetery in the region has been desecrated in recent months in december nearly forty graves and the holocaust memorial were vandalized in a hairless time just a half hour's drive from here. every year towards the village gives a freedom of speech award to a person or group of individuals who have championed human rights and free speech in the media often at great personal risk this year that award goes to this woman the journalist anabel hernandez for her work investigating mexico's drug cartels and exposing corruption in the mexican government now her books on narcotics trafficking of sold thousands hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide you see

this right here narco land it brought her international acclaim her work has shed light on the collusion between corrupt government officials and drug lords in mexico dozens of mexican journalists just like her have lost their lives trying to uncover these stories or nando's is currently living in exile she is not in mexico because of threats on her own life. mexico is one of the deadliest countries for journalists. last year alone ten journalists were killed apparently as retribution for their work. especially at risk are those who dare to ask questions about mexico's drug cartels. the country's war on drugs has claimed tens of thousands of civilian lives in the past two decades younger journalist and about hernandez is a survivor her family has been threatened at gunpoint and someone once left a box of decapitated animals on her doorstep her popular two thousand and ten book

narco land investigates ties between drug cartels and the mexican government she says her work has put her life at risk. many of the shots of the mexican government tried to kill me know this knock out the noise chapo guzman whereas the mexican government to try to kill me asked have been trying to kill too many other journalists in my sheikha that trying to say the true about this condition hernandez now lives in exile in europe where she continues her research for her efforts to expose corruption dutch avila has awarded her the two thousand and one thousand freedom of speech award. well these days that work came in a very sensitive moment in my in my life. because outside from mexico i feel very alone i feel i feel a lot. but this so why for me. he said kind of much more than

that why are i so he died. on a visit to mexico the director general of dutch avella explained the decision to award the prize to hernandez. she stands for a lot of mexican journalists who have a really difficult job here in a country where corruption and not cause criminality is very high to do their job i don't think so it's a well deserved all i want for her and for all mexican journalists and those hopes to return to mexico one day to be closer to her family she was glad to see mexico's new administration take a stance against government corruption but she believes it will take courageous deeds not just words to pull her country back from the brink. you're watching the w. news live from berlin and coming up in e.w. business the cash keeps rolling in to cuba's high class cigar industry thanks to increased demand from a place we don't normally associate with cigar says. chris will be here to

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