15th Mar 2007
He’s not Strange, Just Mistunderstood
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After Fashionologie posted several quotes from The New Yorker’s profile of Karl Lagerfeld I said to myself, ok, let me read this article. Scroll down the first page and saw that there were 9 more pages of this verbose stream of Lagerfeldisms, conciousness and exaplanations. I read the whole thing, this, in and of itself is not the accomplishment, I’ll quote Fashionologie right now and then explain why I read the opus, she writes:
“Karl Lagerfeld may be ridiculous, and he may even be a bit twisted, but he is absolutely a journalist’s dream. You don’t even have to milk the good quotes out of him, they just flow out of his mouth, make the story for the writer.”
Why does she say this? Here’s an excerpt of quotes from the article:
“I’m not a social person, “Not that I’m not at ease. I’m pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It’s not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that’s all.†…
“I have a direct line, but I don’t even remember the number,†he says. “I have cell phones, but I don’t use them. Personally, it is nearly impossible to reach me.â€
My explanation on why I read the whole thing? The man’s a genius and it’s quite fun simply staring.
The full article (and you may not be able to read this in one sitting), is located here.
Posted by michelle @ 8:54 am
March 15th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
Yes, the man is a genius. This article and the Beautiful Fall should required reading in fashion design school…I stand in awe!!