Hamburg renames promenade after designer Karl Lagerfeld

Carsten Brosda, Senator for Culture and Media in Hamburg, speaks during an interview in his office. Karl Lagerfeld Promenade in Hamburg is inaugurated. Christian Charisius/dpa

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.