The usually immaculately groomed fashion icon, 85, appeared uncharacteristically unkempt — and more worrying, was missing several teeth when he smiled.

A representative for Karl told the Daily Mail: “He is currently undergoing dental treatment, however he wanted to honour his longstanding commitment to attend the ceremony.”

Largerfeld courted controversy earlier this year when he railed against the #MeToo movement in a somewhat bizarre interview with Numero.

“I’m fed up with it. What shocks me most in all of this are the starlets who have taken 20 years to remember what happened. Not to mention the fact there are no prosecution witnesses,” he said.

“I read somewhere that now you must ask a model if she is comfortable with posing. It’s simply too much, from now on, as a designer, you can’t do anything. As for the accusations against the poor Karl Templar [creative director at Interview magazine], I don’t believe a single word of it. A girl complained he tried to pull her pants down and he is instantly excommunicated from a profession that up until then had venerated him. It’s unbelievable. If you don’t want your pants pulled about, don’t become a model! Join a nunnery, there’ll always be a place for you in the convent. They’re recruiting even!”

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