When all is said and done, it's Karl Lagerfeld who gets the last word. At least, that's what we took away from his latest interview with Numéro, in which he yanked off his leather gloves and snatched every wig within arm's reach. No one was safe: Jonathan Anderson, Jacquemus (though, he thinks the French designer is "pretty"), Virgil Abloh, his lifelong nemeses the late Azzedine Alaïa and Pierre Bergé, and more.
The Belgian creative director, couturier, etc. is aware of his own dark triad-type personality; it's partly why he's so revered — and so famous. But what makes Lagerfeld so disliked by his peers might be interviews like this. (In fact, in his chat with the magazine, he confirms: "All the other designers hate me.") And though we'll let you catch up on everything else he's said and done (we're talking decades worth of shade throwing), in the slideshow ahead, his latest slams are, as he'd have it, on full display.
We're not stirring the pot as much as it's a Saturday morning and we're ripe for a mug of piping hot tea. Head over to Numéro to read the interview in full — trust us, you'll want to — but, in the meantime, who's going to put the call out to Andy Cohen for a Real Housewives of Fashion? Because we think Monsieur Lagerfeld is ready for his peach. Apple? Whatever. C'mon, wig!
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Azzedine Alaïa (and Pierre Bergé)
"The worst thing about all of this, is that they try and blame me for their problems with working overtime. Azzedine [Alaïa], for example, before falling down the stairs, claimed that the supposedly unsustainable rhythms in fashion today were entirely my fault, which is absurd.
"When you are running a billion-dollar business, you must keep up. And if it doesn’t suit you, then you may as well mess around in your bedroom. I’m sorry but last year I lost my two best enemies Pierre Bergé and the other one. Azzedine loathed me, go figure. And for Pierre’s funeral, my florist asked me, 'Do you want us to send a cactus?'"
Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images.
The #MeToo Movement
"I’m fed up with it. I don’t even eat pig [in France the movement’s known as #BalanceTonPorc]. What shocks me most in all of this are the starlets who have taken 20 years to remember what happened. Not to mention the fact there are no prosecution witnesses."
Models
"I read somewhere that now you must ask a model if she is comfortable with posing. It's simply too much, from now on, as a designer, you can’t do anything. As for the accusations against the poor Karl Templer, I don’t believe a single word of it. A girl complained he tried to pull her pants down and he is instantly excommunicated from a profession that up until then had venerated him. Its unbelievable.
"If you don’t want your pants pulled about, don’t become a model! Join a nunnery, there’ll always be a place for you in the convent. They’re recruiting even!"
Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images.
La Madeleine Church
"How awful! There will be no burial. I’d rather die. Since those miserable Hallyday family stories, a funeral at the Madeleine looks like a joke. I’ve asked to be cremated and for my ashes to dispersed with those of my mother…and those of Choupette, if she dies before me."
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"I’d kill myself first."
Harvey Weinstein
"I cannot stand Mr Weinstein. I had a problem with him at amfAR."
Men's Fashion & Male Models
"Men’s fashion does little for me. I buy it of course, and I’m delighted that Hedi [Slimane] is going to Céline, but drawing a men’s collection and having to put up with all those stupid models, no thanks. Not to mention the fact with all their accusations of harassment they have become quite toxic. No, no, no, don’t leave me alone with one of those sordid creatures."
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