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Five years after the death of star fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, his German home town of Hamburg has renamed a waterfront promenade in the city centre in his honour.
The 155-metre-long walkway runs along the Alsterfleet canal in the city.
At an inauguration ceremony on Thursday, Hamburg's minister for culture, Carsten Brosda, said that Lagerfeld's unmistakable style had made him a trendsetter in the international fashion world.
"Lagerfeld's artistic spirit has also left its mark on the city of his birth - now also in the form of a promenade," Brosda.
Lagerfeld's look of white hair, sunglasses and starched collars helped make him a well-known icon in the world of art and fashion. His designs and work helped define global fashion for more than a half century.
He reinterpreted tweed jackets with ribbons and fringes, combined haute couture dresses with trainers and discovered top models.