Karl at Le Web Conference 2011, Paris

Earlier this month in Paris, Le Web hosted the biggest tech conference in Europe attracting over 300 participants from 60 countries. The speakers included a star studded list of the tech world’s finest including, Google’s Eric Schmidt, Spotify founder Daniel Ek and Instagram’s Kevin Systorm.

This year, Le Web scored one of the biggest names in fashion as a speaker, legendary designer Karl Lagerfeld.


In the much anticipated interview, Karl Lagerfeld along with Net-a-Porter founder Natalie Massenet, announced the launch of the new label ‘Karl’ which will be sold exclusively online at Net-a-Porter from January 2012.

In addition to the big announcement about his new line, the fashion icon gave an uncanny and entertaining view into his world:

At the beginning of the interview, Karl revealed his Apple fetish claiming to have an impressive collection of hundreds of iPods, 30-40 iPads and 4 iPhones!

He emphasized the iPad as an important tool, using it to create videos, sketch designs and jot down ideas. In the previous week alone he had used his iPad to film short advertisements for Chanel, where he is the Creative Director. Karl even gave the audience a  demonstration of how he sketches with the iPad, drafting a quick, yet impressive, self-portrait. He also showed a selfmade portrait of Steve Jobs.
See the complete interview down after the pictures.