Fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld has died aged 85 after a cancer battle, the Mirror reports.
The iconic designer, who was the creative director of Chanel, is believed to have been unwell for two weeks before his death in a Paris hospital.
According to sources close to him, Lagerfeld was rushed to hospital on Monday while suffering from pancreatic cancer.
He had missed two of Chanel’s haute couture Paris shows on January 22, but the fashion company only said at the time he was feeling tired.
In a statement read out after he missed the second show, it said: “Mr Lagerfeld, artistic director of Chanel, who was feeling tired, asked Virginie Viard, director of the creative studio of the house, to represent him.”
It was the first time he had ever missed giving a catwalk bow at the end of a Chanel show.