Wow! Karl really has a way of stating the truth. I am so happy he is defending the thin models (I'm one of them!) I mean there has been enough model bashing over the years. I wish the haters would just quit! I know sometimes the truth hurts, but Karl is absolutely correct. Just like I am always telling you darlings that if other women are not nice to you, they are just jealous, Karl is essentially saying the same thing as me. I am so glad someone with a higher profile than me says it too. Don't ever let yourself go in the hopes of conforming. Kisses and kudos to Karl Lagerfeld.
From the Guardian UK.
German designer, Karl Lagerfeld claims objections to 'size-zero' models are driven by overweight women.
Karl Lagerfeld, the eccentric German fashion designer, has waded into the debate about size-zero models by stating that people prefer to look at "skinny models", and those who do not are "fat mothers".
Lagerfeld, 71, was reacting to the magazine Brigitte's announcement last week that it will in future use "ordinary, realistic" women rather than professional models in its photoshoots. He said the decision by Germany's most popular women's magazine was "absurd" and driven by overweight women who did not like to be reminded of their weight issues.
"It is only the FAT women sitting with their bags of potato chip in front of the television, saying that THE thin models are hideous," Lagerfeld said in an interview with Focus magazine. The creative director of the fashion house Chanel added that the world of fashion was all to do "with dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women".
Lagerfeld, who is known in the trade as a designer with a particular penchant for skinny models, adopted an almost emaciated look himself a few years ago, losing a lot of weight when he went on a strict low-carbohydrate diet. He has continued to share his diet tips over the years, stating: "I only like the things that I'm allowed to eat, so it's not like I have to avoid anything, which is how I don't put on weight."
He has also repeatedly defended the fashion world against claims that it encourages anorexia. Three years ago in Berlin, the designer, known in the trade as King Karl and who sports a trademark upturned white collar and black leather gloves, created a stir by saying that it was psychological problems that caused models to be underweight, not pressure from the fashion industry. "They aren't deliberately skinny because they want to be models, they've probably had family problems or suffered from other traumas," he said, adding that he had never seen any anorexic models himself, "only extremely slim ones".
The Hamburg fashion designer John Ribbe joined the debate, saying the row over underweight models had become hysterical. "It's just as much a cliché as saying that all models take drugs and get drunk at sex orgies," he said. "Ninety per cent of them are quite normal, properly proportioned girls with less fat and more muscles who also eat pizzas and burgers."
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Wishing you fabuleux, xx,
Nancy Marie
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