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Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. Credit: Pascal Le Segretain, Getty Images
The designer, who according to The Guardian has a penchant for skinny models, said that the only people who object to slender women are overweight mothers.
"These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly," Lagerfeld said in an interview with Focus magazine. The creative director of Chanel went on to add that readers crave fantasy, and that fashion was all about "dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women."
He made the remarks in response to Brigitte editor Andreas Lebert, who said he was tired of having to doctor photos of underweight models to make them look heavier. The magazine will begin using non-professional models with real-girl bodies as of Jan. 2, 2010, according to The Guardian. Lebert also put a call out to readers to audition.
Lagerfeld, 71, is well-known for his defense of super-thin women, and in the past has dismissed the idea that an unattainable standard of beauty depicted in fashion magazines encourages anorexia in women and girls who are not models.
According to The Guardian, he stirred the pot further by saying that "family problems" or "other traumas" caused models to be underweight, not pressure from the fashion industry.
Not even the beautiful people are safe from Lagerfeld's exacting standards. He made news in June, when he blasted supermodel, mom and "Project Runway" host Heidi Klum for being too fat. According to The Sun, he said she was "too heavy" to be a catwalk model.
Klum, 36, is married to Grammy-award winning musician Seal and gave birth to her fourth child, a girl named Lou Sulola Samuel, on Oct. 13.
On the opposite side of the argument, British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman called on designers to end the "size zero culture" of fashion.
Do you want to see real, round women in magazines, or do you prefer the slender fantasy?
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10-13-2009 @ 1:20PM
ame s said...Carl looks alarmingly like a different kind of mummy.
That said, "fat mummies" and normal, average sized mummies can make a statement by not buying his clothing.
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10-13-2009 @ 3:09PM
CLM said...Why do we care what he has to say? Why do we care whether he has a preference for extremely thin women? If he thinks Heidi Klum is too heavy, then he is clearly out of touch and should be provided an opportunity to discuss this further with a licensed psychologist. This skinny mummy has no use for him, his view, or his clothes.
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10-13-2009 @ 5:13PM
rheanna said...well, if he doesnt like "fat mummies" then i dont like "ugly, freaky looking fashion designers." I think that overweight people can be unappealing, but underweight models can also be as equally unappealing. What exactly IS perfect?? People come in different shapes and different sizes. Not everyone thinks that the same things are attractive, and that is what makes the world go round! But you see a lot more negative controversy (in general) over people that are overweight than you do people that are underweight. Society's definition of a "normal" size continues to get smaller and smaller, and what people once regarded as beautiful and curvy, i.e. Marilyn Monroe, is now considered to be "too heavy." This guy would have been better off if he had of kept his big fat mouth shut.
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10-21-2009 @ 7:18PM
GFM said...rheanna,
I was so thinking the exact same things as you. I'd rather be a "fat mummy" than look like this man any day. EEEWWW!!!! He's too early for Halloween, right? ;)
10-21-2009 @ 9:19PM
Jo said...To answer the end of article question, "Do you want to see real, round women in magazines, or do you prefer the slender fantasy?" I'd much rather see real, round women in magazines because then I can see more realistically what an outfit might look like on me...a real, round woman and proud of it! Also, I'd like to see more REAL looking fashion designers, real as in - not dead, not goth, not hyper-gay, just real people who dress better so they don't distract attention away from their product.
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10-21-2009 @ 1:38AM
Mary Sullivan said...The guy is a well-known jerk. Just more proof here. Whatever.
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10-22-2009 @ 1:20AM
Laura said...He's probably right though, about readers generally preferring fantasy to realism in magazines--at least high fashion magazines. People figure if they want to see real women all they have to do is take public transit.
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12-09-2009 @ 11:53PM
Kristen Threadgill said...Okay! I think they should not do just curvy or just skinny, but mix it up! Throw in some twiggys with some queen latifas... I would love to see some curvy girls in high fashion though just to break the mold! I think modeling is about beauty but why does beauty have to be about size! I have seen ugly skinny girls and gorgeous plump girls and vice versa so lets just throw them all in there! lol!
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3-14-2010 @ 12:13PM
Girlslashwoman said...He is clueless. I don't know why anyone pays attention to the guy. Who is he really and what has he done to make the world a better place? He's a pusher and his drug is consumerism. Look at the clothes he makes, who in their right minds would wear that? Call it fashion, call it art, call it what you want. Hell, he can have his skinny models... as long as they have to wear his "creations" and I don't.
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