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Chanel Runway Show FW 09/10

by Mayday

Added: about 1 year ago

We love Karl Lagerfeld and it has little if nothing to do with the fact he runs Chanel. We would let him scream at us and throw his hot coffee at us in a fit of rage if it meant we could hang out with him for, like, 20 minutes. That’s the kind of power an enigma like Karl Lagerfeld has over us mere mortals. Heidi Klum said she didn’t care when he publically said he had barley any idea who she is and that she is fat, but you know she went home and cried over that Sh#t. We would have too.

We read an interview with Karl Lagerfeld not long ago where he was discussing the world recession and its effect on the industry overall and, though we have always pegged Sir Karl to be extremely intelligent, we were surprised at his insight into this mess we find ourselves trying to dig out of presently.

He used a term which has stuck with us ever since we read it – something he called “The New Modesty“ – and reflected how the entertainment, media and fashion industry had, in essence, been living and operating itself much like the over lending banks and over spending CEOS that have since been the failed guidance signal which has made our economy plummet like a missile failing to hit its target.

This was, by his explanation and we do have to agree, what the fad of ‘Bling’ was really all about and therefore it is only natural that as the economy turned, the fad that went along with the previous economy die with it (which is obvious and natural of course, but interesting to hear articulated by someone such as himself.)

It was then the interviewer tried to throw Karl for a loop, but that sly Karl, that quick old bastard that he is didn’t fall for it for a second. When asked if he, as the creative force and vision behind Chanel, planned to adopt any of this ‘new modesty’ to the Chanel Line, his designs or even his own personal life, Karl simply shook his head and laughed.

"We have no budget, we do what we want and throwing money out the window brings money back in through the front door. The bottom line is that I don’t deal with the bottom line."

That’s the thing about a line like Chanel. Chanel isn’t made for you or us. That doesn’t mean we don’t have a fab pair of Chanel shoes in our closet that we baby and coddle like a new born and would rather cut off our feet then be without, but those shoes, this line, is not designed, marketed and sold for someone from our economic background. It’s sad, but it’s true.

That being said Karl Lagerfeld couldn’t give a flying fu#k if you are losing your house, your job, or the shirt of your back.

And oddly enough, that is his job and that’s what they pay him for.