Karl Lagerfeld reveals where he got his talent for “cutting remarks.”
Head designer and creative director of French fashion house Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, gives a breakdown on where he might have got his acid tongue from.
He told men’s magazine M that he was interested in fashion at an early age but his mother did not look on it kindly. Her response to his love of hats was, “You shouldn’t wear hats. You look like an old dyke.” Perhaps that’s where he inherited the over-critical side of him. The man is outspoken and doesn’t hold anything back when he has something to say and sometimes bites off more than he can chew in the process.
His remarks about the Duchess of Cambridge’s sister, Pippa Middleton, was just such a remark. His precise words were: “I don’t like the sister’s face. She should only show her back.” There’s more where this comes from. His take on singer Adele went like this: “She is a little too fat but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.” His more cutting remarks were reserved for supermodels Heidi Klum and Claudia Schiffer. He told German GQ, “She was never known in France. Claudia Schiffer also doesn’t know who she is.” There’s plenty more but one that really takes the cake is his onslaught on Lana del Rey. He asked Paris’s Metro in 2012, “Is she a construct with all her implants?”
The man does know how to dish it out and now we know where he gets his talent from. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree folks as the saying goes and Karl Lagerfeld does his mother proud in that respect.
By
T. J. Mueller
