Karl Lagerfeld - Designer

[GIVENCHYlover]

From a Vice interview Bruce LaBruce from 2010


And you have no problem with p*rn, either.
KL: No. I admire p*rn.

This is another thing that we have in common.
KL: And I personally only like high-class escorts. I don’t like sleeping with people I really love. I don’t want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever. I think this is healthy. And for the way the rich live, this is possible. But the other world, I think they need p*rn. I also think it’s much more difficult to perform in p*rn than to fake some emotion on the face as an actor.

Yes, there’s a quote from you about how giving a blowjob on film is more difficult than acting out grand emotions, which can be feigned. I totally agree. I think people don’t give p*rn actors credit. It’s not easy what they do.
KL: I admire p*rn actors.

 

[Creative]

I will miss him forever. He was the smartest, funniest and most interesting person ever.

I need to read/listen to his opinions and his voice. It’s just so unfair people like him also need to die. He was a kind of a compass for the world of fashion.

I feel with him, PB and Saint Laurent a whole world of anecdotes and stories died forever. It makes me so sad.

 

[LadyJunon]

A video on Lagerfeld's tenure at Chanel:

 

[jeremydante]

Miss Karl very much.
I think of him every show season, wondering what he may have done if he was still designing today.

 

[Nimsay]

Very boring watch. Tried to watch it with the husband on the patio this morning and turned it off after like 9 minutes.

 

[Lola701]

A video on Lagerfeld's tenure at Chanel:

I finally watched it and let’s say that I was very disappointed.
It was like watching a marketing study to teach Karl’s Chanel 101 to an oblivious person working at McKinsey.

So much is lacking about Karl’s design language, what shaped him as a designer. When in the first few minutes, to talk about the 1974 Chloe collection, they talks about Karl possibly referencing Chanel when in fact it goes back to Jean Patou, the father of that kind of 1920’s sportswear, everything is said.

At the end it was more upsetting than entertaining.

Even when talking about the business aspect. The very contentious relationship Karl had with Kitty D’Alessio that led to Arie Kopleman taking over Chanel. Bruno Pavlovksky taking care of fashion in 1998 at a time when Chanel was submitted to a change in fashion that just happened to be minimalism. You can’t talk about the work of Karl without talking about his life too. The diet and the influence Hedi Slimane and his crowd had on his design language. Also the crisis in 2008 that changed the status of the brand…

You can’t talk about his era without mentioning Victoire de Castellane and Gilles Dufour then the switch with Laetitia Crahay, Virginie Viard and Amanda Harlech.

And I find the LVMH section odd and almost unrelated to Karl until 1999. It would have been more interesting to talk about Cora-Revillon, the creation of the Karl Lagerfeld brand in 1984, the fact that the brand was bought by The Vendome Group, affiliated to Dunhill that therefore led to Karl being his own competitor working for Chloe, Fendi, Karl Lagerfeld and Chanel.

A lot can be said. I just wished that someone looked at his work from a design standpoint. We don’t need another marketing study on his body of work…