{"id":28930,"date":"2015-03-31T19:44:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T23:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=28930"},"modified":"2015-03-31T20:56:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T00:56:18","slug":"karl-lagerfeld-is-like-his-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/karl-lagerfeld-is-like-his-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl Lagerfeld Is Like His Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"

Designer Karl Lagerfeld always gives good interview and this Q&A with Amy Larocca for The Cut <\/a>is no exception.\u00a0 I like his response to “What are you reading?”:<\/p>\n

“I will not talk about that. I like to read biographies, history, philosophical things like this. But it\u2019s for my private use, and not for making people say, Oh, how clever this stupid man is. I don\u2019t make intellectual conversation. I\u2019m very superficial. I\u2019m just a fashion designer. Fashion designers look at fashion magazines, right?”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Speaking of his mother, he says:<\/p>\n

“She was very tough, and very nasty. My father was very sweet and her victim. My father found exactly the wife that was not for him. He could never relax.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Karl is more like Mom, of course:<\/p>\n

“She used to say, <\/em>You look like me but not as good. And this is just the kind of line I use.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He’s still madly in love with his cat Choupette who, he says, did two jobs last year and earned three million euros. I’m surprised she worked that hard, but I suppose she’s got to pay those two personal maids of hers. Of Choupette’s personality and intelligence, Karl says: “She is like a human being, but the good thing is that she\u2019s silent.” But isn’t that exactly what we all<\/em> love about our pets?<\/p>\n

\"fitzroyquery\"<\/p>\n

Oh, sorry, FitzRoy<\/a>! I didn’t realize you were reading this over my shoulder!<\/p>\n

Karl and Choupette were in New York City for 48 hours to present Chanel’s Paris-Salzburg collection<\/a>, which was originally shown in Austria in December<\/a>.\u00a0 Apparently my invitation was lost in the mail, but I’m sure FitzRoy is meeting up with Choupette for the afterparty! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Designer Karl Lagerfeld always gives good interview and this Q&A with Amy Larocca for The Cut is no exception.\u00a0 I like his response to “What are you reading?”: “I will not talk about that. I like to read biographies, history, philosophical things like this. But it\u2019s for my private use, and not for making people…<\/p>\n

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