while joining us now from london is alicia draycott she's the author of the book beautiful fall about the rivalry between karl lagerfeld and another star designer if so long during the nineteen seventies a very good evening alicia you met karl lagerfeld what was he like he was everything that you think she was like everything that we heard well here it's beautiful man it's extraordinary and i met him in ninety nine she's in paris at least when. i was there is a journalist would like to ask more questions than he wants to of and he was just incredibly curious what's so striking alicia is that there were all these rumors swirling around that he was in ill health that he had some health issues and also a couple of of the last media appearances that he made he looked quite haggard but his death still comes as a shock how do you explain that. comfort zone shock i think really you're right people have been talking about how they have been rumors but i just read somebody comment saying on instagram saying that they thought he would live forever he is. always the last of the teens he's the la