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# A Custom Collection
- URL: https://helpful-koala.pikapod.net/a-custom-collection-3/
- Published: 2025-02-08T01:30:45.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-09T22:46:03.000Z
- Author: Robert Rackley
- Tags: Tech, #robert-2, #Import 2025-12-24 10:01, #Import 2026-07-11 23:34, #Import 2026-08-02 01:19, #Import 2026-09-14 17:25

A few years ago, my wife’s company had a get together at CAMRaleigh, the modern art museum. After some mingling, the boys and I camped out in the staff offices. The desk where I sat had numerous pictures of Karl Lagerfeld. I might have felt a little uncomfortable at the man’s ubiquitous gaze, but his surgically attached sunglasses prevented that.

I don’t have much to say about Lagerfeld’s life or work, but apparently he had excellent taste in iPods. Check out these custom Nanos.

![](https://helpful-koala.pikapod.net/content/images/2025/02/IMG_1282-1.jpeg)

Image via [Sotheby's](https://www.sothebys.com/buy/e7cc6b11-85a7-411f-9495-ed3f22ce2069?ref=helpful-koala.pikapod.net)

[Macstories covers the estate sale](https://www.macstories.net/?s=Lagerfeld&ref=helpful-koala.pikapod.net) from Southeby’s where Lagerfeld’s collection is being auctioned. Like John Voorhees, who wrote the piece, I’ll always be a big fan of the iPod. I harbor the same irrational hope that one day Apple will bring it back to please those of us who love single-use devices. In the meantime, I suppose I could put in my bid for one of Lagerfeld’s over 500 that are being sold.