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September, 10 was born the most influential designer of today’s fashion, fashion genius and the most amazing person in fashion. His name is Karl Lagerfeld. He made a legend even of his look, so now millions of people put his face on their clothes. He’s feared an loved, he’s one who can really rule the world!

Can’t you believe this? He created collections for Chanel, Fendi, his own brand Karl Lagerfeld, he makes photoshoots for magazines and ad campains, he makes movies and decide what music to use in the show, he has his own bookshop and publishing house 7L. Karl Lagerfeld is fantastic! I wonder how he manages everything.

Nobody really knows the year he was born, but really who cares about years?! When we speak about such a genius it’s not that important. But it’s always important to say that we love somebody, especially in his birthday.

Happy birthday, monsieur Karl!

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Karl Lagerfeld muses about Baptiste Giabiconi to WWD.

“I think after the ugly skinny boys of Hedi [Slimane’s] days…some ‘beauty’ was needed, but new beauty.”

WWD asked Lagerfeld why more men are suddenly turning up in women’s fashion ads and editorials: “It’s very simple,” Lagerfeld explained. “They put the girls in a more lifestyle situation. Lonely girls can be a little sad in a fashion story. They dress not only for other girls, but also to please men. The popularity is sudden because there are a few new faces.”

Lagerfeld likens Giabiconi, now rated number one on Models.com, to “a boy version of Gisele [Bündchen]: skinny, skinny but with an athletic body — good for clothes and great with no clothes.”

According to Lagerfeld, Giabiconi evokes envy even in other models. He recounted that when Naomi Campbell met him in Moscow recently, she told him, “It’s not right: We all have defects. You have none.”

Image Baptiste Giabiconi – Purple

As sewers and designers, we all have our inspirations, and favorites. Karl Lagerfeld has long been one of mine. He has long been a poster child for doing things your own way, and doing them with style.  Knowing this, what can I say? I had to pass this on to you. Karl Lagerfeld, designer extraordinaire or Chanel is starring in  children’s animated movie “Totally Spies! Le Film”  that opens in Europe this week.

Totally Spies is a popular children’s cartoon that runs in Europe. As the film’s villain, Fabu, he’s going to rock. Don’t speak french or live in Europe? No worries. He’s also dubbing himself in German and English versions. Whahoo! the trifecta! I wonder if Fabu will be holding a fan! Lagerfeld’s last turn on the silver screen was in 1973 in Warhol’s L’Amour.

Mr Lagerfeld was tapped to do Fabu because of his natural frenetic nature. He says that he talks that way because he knows three languages. Really? Funny, my exchange student also spoke three languages, and she was certainly not frenetic.

Sourse: examiner.com

In the September issue of Harper’s Bazaar, the editors ran a cutesy feature titled ‘What Would Coco Do?’. With the new film Coco Before Chaneldue out this autumn, says the headline, “Bazaarwondered what the notoriously feisty Madame Chanel would say about the world after Chanel. So we asked [current Chanel designer] Karl Lagerfeld to channel the original fashion wit.”

One of these exchanges goes like so:

Harper’s Bazaar: Your clothing liberated women in the 1920s. Are you still a feminist?

Lagerfeld-as-Chanel: I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.

This quip rankled me on many levels: as a woman, as a fashion consumer, as a writer for both adult and young women. It is a spiteful, irrelevant observation: one’s appearance has nothing to do with one’s relationship to feminism. In my mind, a feminist is any woman who believes that women – like men – have the right to determine their own individual destinies, barred neither by law nor cultural convention from doing so. I am proud to count myself in that category.

That Madame Chanel did not consider herself a feminist is well-documented, despite the fact that in some respects she could be considered a feminist icon: an impoverished-orphan-turned-female-business-mogul who redefined the attitudes of her generation and those to follow. Her self-created persona, aesthetics, and empire were premised on the defiance of the rigid social constructs of her youth. She could hardly be considered a creature of demure Victorian subservience.

Whatever her reasons for declining to categorize herself as a feminist, her career provides much inspiration for ambitious women everywhere. That her successor chooses to mock a demographic of Chanel’s consumers (not all of whom are buying his apparel with their husbands’ Mastercards), and propagate this erroneous impression of feminism, is unfortunate and disenchanting.

This “ugly feminist” would expect more from the ambassador of a brand supposedly devoted to elegance.

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KARL Lagerfeld appreciates all the Americans who buy his Chanel merchandise, PAGE SIX reports.

When a trio from the American Friends of Versailles – Jonathan Marder, Catharine Hamilton and Sharon Hoge – saw KARL Lagerfeldat the press opening of his photo exhibition “KL at Versailles,” the designer offered to donate some prints for their fund-raising efforts. “Look how many of these charming Americans are wearing my Chanel and how well they look in it. It’s an honor and a pleasure to help them,” Lagerfeld said.

THE CUT shares Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen’s interview with Karl Lagerfeld for their new book Influence. Influence features interviews with designers, photographers, artists, and tastemakers alongside pictures of them, their work, and the Olsens.

AO: What do you do now to stay in shape?
KL: Nothing … I have a doctor who I made a book with that sold five million copies all over the world. Every country bought one, I think, in Russia and Italy and everywhere. But I don’t get it — I don’t know what Japan is going to do with a European diet book … Since I started my diet, which was like eight years ago, I haven’t touched what I’m not supposed to: sugar, cheese, nothing! I don’t even look at it. It looks to me like plastic.

KL: [N]owadays you start to model because you’re young. Now the girls are sixteen, seventeen, fifteen, and Russian. They are like from another planet
AO: They can look very bizarre!
KL: I hate all these tall women. They are all giants!
MKO: If only I were a little taller — that would make me happy!
KL: You are one meter fifty-one. You are taller than that?
AO: We’re five feet and one inch.
KL: Oh, I thought my office told me that you were four-foot eight or something. Not that it matters. What you need is a face. If you have a face you don’t need height or a voice. Models know this; that’s why the good ones don’t need to talk much.

KL: I like to work with models for a long time. Sometimes the girls change, but some girls I work with for years and years. With male models it is different. I hate working with male models.
AO: Ah, well boys come and go!
KL: And I hate doing castings and things like this. “oh no you’re not right” — that’s horrible to say to someone. I never do castings. Other people do them, and then I see the result of the casting. It’s humiliating for the models.

KL: I don’t have people I don’t like around me ever.
MKO: You don’t have to.
KL: …I don’t work with many men. I don’t want to ask the men about the fashion. Their opinion doesn’t interest me.

KL: I like more classic [shapes] now. Best thing to do for skinny people to wear tight dresses. Although jeans are becoming too tight.
AO: Ah! Yes, it’s becoming a problem. It’s the worst.
KL: You can kill yourself in these jeans.
MKO: Ha, I’d rather stay inside with my friends than limp out in tight trousers.
KL: Maybe you’ll stay inside with a baby. Do you want to get married? Children? Two perfect mums, yes?
[Mary-Kate and Ashley look at each other]
KL: Ah! Don’t worry, you have time. You’re young. Don’t you want to get married?
MKO: I don’t feel the need to get married. But Ashley wants children. I’ll be a great aunt or godmother.
AO: To my child.
KL: [To Ashley] Are you planning?
AO: No. I don’t even have a boyfriend. You have to plan that first, right? Figure that out first?
KL: If you get a boyfriend it doesn’t mean that! Today you can have a baby first. If you want. I never liked the idea of a family at all. If it’s a woman — it’s more fun for a woman.

MKO: It can be dangerous when you’re driving [in L.A.] particularly, because they follow you in cars and scooters. That’s bad. That’s not easy.
KL: I had two accidents where I fell asleep — after that I thought it was better that I don’t drive. I’ll get a driver. I’m a bad driver because I want to look there, there, and up there. I get bored easily — so twice I fall asleep and twice the car is destroyed … I had nothing [wrong] with me — but both cars were destroyed.

Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld believes that it is childish to discuss the use of fur in a world where eating meat was normal. Lagerfeld tells Daily Telegraph that he does not wear fur but he recognizes that there is “an industry who lives from that”.

Hunters in the north “make a living having learnt nothing else than hunting”, he said, “killing those beasts who would kill us if they could.”

He added that animals should be killed “nicely” if possible.

He concluded: “In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.”

A spokesman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said: “Karl Lagerfeld is a fashion dinosaur who is as out of step as his furs are out of style.”

In other news, Karl Lagerfeld reopened the size zero debate in an interview for Radio 4 programme Today. Lagerfeld said: “In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

“There are nearly 30 per cent of young people who are too fat. So let’s take care of the zillions of the too fat before we talk about the percentage that’s left.”

A spokesperson for the group Beating Eating Disorders said that Lagerfeld’s views are a very sad reflection on attitudes within the fashion industry.

She told The Telegraph: “We talk to thousands of people every year with eating disorders, who say ‘If we look like that, we are told that we should be in hospital.’ Yet these models are being celebrated.”

CHANEL creative director Karl Lagerfeld, isn’t too fazed by the impending recession, VOGUE UK reports.

“I see it like a cleaning up – it was too rotten anyway – so it had to be cleaned up,” the designer muses stoically. “I see it like a healthy thing – horrible but healthy, like some miracle treatment of the world.”

“People have different kinds of dreams. After all, people need a handbag, there are cheaper handbags. But if you can buy a beautiful one and if that’s your dream to buy, why not? I can be interested in a $20 million diamond I will never buy, without desiring the diamond,” he tells NEWS.BBC.CO.UK. “If you want only things you can afford, it’s boring.”

“It’s great to see things you may not buy – because you don’t have the money – but it is very ugly to think they shouldn’t exist because you can not buy them.”