Tout le fashion web online is talking about Karl Lagerfeld’s comments. The Guardian reports that Lagerfeld , 71, in an interview with a magazine has said that only fat mummies are complaining about the zero size models. Lagerfeld said:
“These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly,” said Lagerfeld in an interview with the magazine Focus. The designer, who lost a lot of weight himself when he went on a strict low-carbohydrate diet several years ago, added that the world of fashion was all to do “with dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women”.
Sorry, Mr. Lagerfeld,but your comments are just not keeping up with reality. Fashion models are literally dying of anorexia and fainting on runways. The models today are up to 20 lbs. thinner than the ‘supermodels’ of the 80′s such as Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell. The outcry against skeletal frames and sunken in eyes has been raging in the “real world” for a while and is finally starting to make inroads into the fashion world.
Fashion week organizers have banned zero sized models around the world and fashion magazines such as British Vogue and Brigitte in Germany have vowed to stop using ultra thin models.
Canadian born fashion designer Mark Fast, created controversy and much acclaim with using size 12 models for his show at London Fashion week. And finally just recently the fashion house of Ralph Lauren provoked a universal outcry when a model in their ads was photoshopped to look cartoonishly anorexic.
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Lagerfeld is old. His models are anorexic, time to move on…
Karl Lagerfeld is always outspoken, but his time he has gone too far. Too bad cause he really is a gREAT designer, but now all anyone is going to talk about is this ” run of the mouth”…
I think this old man should probably shut up and move with the times. I don’t think he is attractive, but I wouldn’t go around telling old people they are ugly.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
No kidding he likes anorexic, look at the pic of his models, that one in the white dress is skinnier than any Barbie. Twig like legs and bones everywhere. Gross!! Real men don’t go for that. Listen up ladies!
Lagerfield does not seem to acknowledge the true effect that these size 0 models have on young impressionable women. I am glad to hear that 0 models are not being used and that size 12 models were given a chance!!