Cash-rich Karl Lagerfeld fans who’ve bought everything Chanel and Fendi might want to consider a German villa for their next purchase. “Villa Jako,” an opulent abode in Hamburg’s exclusive Blankenese district that belonged to the iconic designer for most of the Nineties, has hit the market for 10 million euros. The three-bedroom hilltop house was built for a shipping magnate in the Twenties to resemble a Roman villa, complete with a grand facade and, of course, multiple columns. He named it Villa Schüler, but when Lagerfeld acquired the home in his native city, one of the first things he did was to change its name to Villa Jako — a tribute to his longtime partner Jacques de Bascher, who died in 1989. At the same time, he hired renowned Hamburg-based art conservator Renate Kant to help him refurbish it and must have been pretty pleased with the results as he went on to shoot the advertising campaign for his Jako perfume in the gardens. In fact, Chanel’s creative director was so inspired by the villa that he published a book on its interiors and gardens called “Ein Deutsches Haus.” Nevertheless, Lagerfeld eventually sold the Hamburg property in 1998, but the owner has preserved some of his interior design elements,

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