Karl Lagerfeld is soon becoming my favorite interviewee and front runner for his own Saturday Night Live sketch with all these amazing quotes he keeps giving to the press. Given yesterday was Uncle Karl’s 78th birthday I think it’s time to feature a few more bits and pieces from his recent interview with Style.com including his though that having ugly children would be quite the ordeal and the Royal Wedding was a sea of “bad proportions, the ugly hats, and short skirts on fat legs.”
But wait, friends, the Kaiser also tackled world politics and his affection for Dominique Strauss-Kahn:
“I love DSK. I love his wife. They are great people and when they came back to Paris I sent them flowers. But you know, for people in politics, it’s very embarrassing. On the left they had hoped he wouldn’t come back, because I think other people want his job. And on the other side…but even in America, Clinton survived his blow job.
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[All politicians] get horny from politics, from power. And he had unbelievable charms. He is really charming. He’s fun, he’s great. He’s a sweet guy—as long as you’re not a woman. That’s the problem.”
Smoking and drug use:
“Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it. But I’m a bad example. I never smoke, I never take drugs, I’m never drunk, because I like only what I’m doing—work, reading, learning, sketching, taking photos. For the rest, my lack of passion or interest for this kind of thing makes it perhaps too easy for me to judge others. I’m surrounded by people who drink and take drugs. It doesn’t bother me at all, even when I know it’s bad for them.”
Karl TV:
“I like if I’m on TV; watching it is not my specialty. I prefer what I see in my mind — I get second-rate images delivered there for free. But I’m not too bad on TV.”
His grasp of modern/antiquated technology:
“I know people who have a fax only because of me…In August I started iPad sketching, and I found a system that’s the same technique, if you really think about it, as engraving in the sixteenth and seventeenth century.”
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“Another technique that I like: You take a photo with an iPad, you put it into a photocopy machine—not every machine, but some—and you get something that looks like a daguerrotype. It’s very strange.”
You can’t help but love the man. Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph, if you can hear me, America demands a Karl Lagerfeld/Donatella Versace SNL sketch. Now get oouuuuttt…
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Great post! Funny stuff.