Wearing fingerless leather mittens and dark glasses, he drove a three-wheeled Harley-Davidson up to a stage.
Alongside collaborations galore – from Diet Coke to Steiff teddy bears – stamped with his iconic profile, a focused push on his signature clothing line, Lagerfeld Collection, saw the opening of a new flagship store on London's Regent Street earlier this month, pedalling accessories such as shades, starched white collars and leather mittens in his image.
Over the mittens or gloves, wear leather mittens - not gloves - with sheepskin or other fur lining.
Convertible: Rachel Comey created these leather flip-top mittens ($300), with zippered pockets for keys, change or sugar.
He kept searching the front hall table, as if he had somehow overlooked them amid all the cheap imitation leather gloves, mismatched mittens and tasseled Bears hats.
At first glance it seems like any ol' menswear collection in white and pale washed-out hues but up close it's an epic translation of hospital workwear into fashion with its snap closures, leather shoe covers, and mittens.
If your workout requires you to handle items, such as a basketball or free weights, choose gloves or mittens with leather or rubber strips on the palms or finger pads to help maintain your grip.
At first this was in the form of mittens with a leather-lined hole in the palm through which the knight could thrust his hand when out of action; by mid-century the armourer's skill had developed to the point of making complete gloves of mail.
You can also cover your hands wearing stylish and trendy leather gloves or simply think dark mittens.
A pair of leather handbags in the shape of oversized mittens — one says "left" and the other says "right," in Chinese — made me smile, and then I wondered whether perhaps they were actually mittens made to look like handbags.
Opposite page: Dior Homme wool jacket, $1,120, leather vest, $1,350, cotton shirt, $355 ,wool gabardine pants, $520 ,scarf, belt, mittens and boots.; At select Dior Homme stores.; This page: Louis Vuitton damask cotton shirt, about $570, hand-dyed ombre sweater, about $600, wool cashmere ombre gabardine jacket (price upon request), matching pants, about $840, socks and shoes.
