The news is already out: Karl Lagerfeld will be the central theme of the 2023 MET Gala. A controversial decision, because despite the fact that the kaiser of fashion will be an iconic designer in history, his three most controversial and retrograde moments are to forget. Something that has led celebrities like Jameela Jamil to refuse this plan.
One of the fashion world’s most vocal fatphobes
The relationship of the world of fashion with fatphobia would give to write entire encyclopedias. But while many firms try to deconstruct and improve, Karl Lagerfeld was always a staunch supporter of the models heroin-chic and let go of the movement curvy.
In 2009 he said that “nobody wants to see women curvy“. In 2012 he said that Adele was “a little too fat” although he later corrected him saying that he was actually referring to Lana del Rey. In 2013 he stated that “the hole in social security is caused by all the diseases of the people who she’s too fat.” He also handed out Pippa Middleton, of whom he said “I don’t like her face, she should just show her back.”
He ridiculed the movement #metoo
While actresses and models came out to denounce the sexual harassment and abuse they have suffered for years and Hollywood turned upside down, Karl Lagerfeld complained about how difficult it was going to be to do his job and insinuated that everything was a lie in an interview.
“What surprises me the most in all this is the first timers who have taken 20 years to remember what happened, not to mention that there are no witnesses. I have read somewhere that now you have to ask the model if she is comfortable. It is too much, from now on you can’t do anything as a designer. It’s incredible, if you don’t want your pants to be lowered, don’t become a model. Become a nun, there will always be a place for you in the concento.”
He made “jokes” about the Holocaust
In a French program he spoke about the open border policy promulgated by Angela Merkel in such a critical way that sparked a storm on social media. It is not for less.
“You can’t kill millions of Jews and then bring millions of your worst enemies in their place. I know someone in Germany who took in a young Syrian and after four days said that the best invention of Germany was the Holocaust.”
Since the death of Karl Lagerfeld in 2019 there are many ways in which the world of fashion has commemorated, from the change of the LVMH award to the Karl Lagerfeld award to the L’Oréal Paris collection inspired by Karl Lagerfeld. All of Chanel’s designer muses have openly mourned him.
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