Sneak peek: Karl Lagerfeld’s affordable line

This week sees the release of the first couple of pictures from Karl Lagerfeld’s hotly anticipated affordable range, which launches online exclusively at Net-a-Porter. The 100 piece “masstige”  collection will debut on January 25th during Paris Couture Week (an odd move as it’s an affordable range) and will be priced from £40 for a canvas bag. Aimed at women in their late teens to early 20s, the collection features pieces from trousers, sweatshirts, skirts, shirts, dresses, tshirts, shoes and bags with a rock edge. Karl stated: “I just want not too expensive clothes that people may like and perhaps want to wear. That was my concept for a long time, but my business partners in the past wanted to be like Chanel or Fendi without putting behind what is needed to be like that … Now I am feeling we are ready for the right job — the way to do things right in a modern, unusual way.”