“These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly” Now that’s a great quote to stir up trouble. Karl Lagarfeld is a very talented man.Like any artist he has a higher standard of esthetics that drive his inspiration. His is mostly women with no shape whose body look androgynous. He can’t control that. I work in the fashion industry and most runway models are oddities of nature . Some of them do owe their shape to their genetic pool. Most of them are starving and usually have to control their hunger with pills or worse. Karl Lagarfeld sells a fantasy , that fantasy destroys lives. Most women with normal bodies do not spend their lives in front of the TV eating chips. Lots of artists from Botero to Rubens and Fellini have been inspired by the other end of the spectrum, extra curves. I think that it is no secret that Karl likes men and his ideal is a skinny man/woman. Good for him, but it does not give him the right to mentally torture young girls and housewives.
Wait is that KArl again?
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