Now I don't care about you, but me and the rest of the entire world have been waiting with bad breath to find out what Karl Lagerfeld has to say about John Galliarsehole's racist outburst. Good news! M. Lagerfeld is quoted on WWD.com;
“I’m furious, if you want to know. I’m furious that it could happen, because the question is no longer even whether he really said it. The image has gone around the world. It’s a horrible image for fashion, because they think that every designer and everything in fashion is like this. This is what makes me crazy in that story..."
Thanks for clearing that up.
Fashion fact! Karl Lagerfeld is the only man in the world who dresses even worse than John Galliarsehole.
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A good piece on Gallianogate in Simon Hoggart's Week in The Guardian friday...
ReplyDelete"Until this week John Galliano was a name as obscure to me as that of the Hartlepool goalkeeper or the mayor of Penzance. Then I saw the pictures. He's a fashion designer? With that absurd Captain Hook moustache? And those demented clothes? It's as if they'd hired Ronald McDonald as the face of the Michelin guide.
But the fashion industry seems to be one which fawns on its members, rather like the world of films. Galliano presumably was used to everyone agreeing with what he said, murmuring praise in his ear, assuring him that everything he did and said was perfect. Even the journalists scramble for the best places by the catwalk, as lunatic as if I judged my professional standing by my seat in the Commons press gallery – suppose I was rude about David Cameron, and the Tories had the right to banish me to the furthest row.
No wonder these protected, pampered people imagine they can get away with anything. Look at Mel Gibson's antisemitic rants, or Russell Crowe hurling telephones at hotel receptionists. Or the Hollywood aristocracy's shock and horror when Ricky Gervais made some mildly disobliging remarks about them.
Politicians get too much stick from the public to be quite the same, though they too exist in an enclosed and privileged world, which is one reason why so many reacted to the expenses scandal by claiming that they'd done nothing wrong – why, everyone did the same.
Of course there are plenty of bigots driving buses, manning call centres, even teaching. But there's nobody to tell them how wonderful they are when they sound off."