Karl Lagerfeld’s Privacy Not Invaded in France

Women’s Wear Daily reports that fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld‘s invasion of privacy lawsuit against British journalist Alicia Drake over her history of ’70s fashion in Paris, The Beautiful Fall, has been dismissed by the French courts. Lagerfeld filed suit in France because that’s where Drake has lived for the last decade, and where a handful of copies were sold, apparently without Drake’s permission or authorization. (The book was published last fall by Bloomsbury in the UK, and here in the States by Little, Brown.) Lagerfeld was ordered to pay Drake’s legal fees, but declared through his counsel that he was “satisfied with the decision, as long as the book is never to be distributed in France.”