Karl Lagerfeld, who in late 2009, made the following statement, “No one wants to see curvy women,” Lagerfeld was quoted as saying on the website of news magazine Focus. “You’ve got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television and saying that thin models are ugly,” he added. The world of fashion is about “dreams and illusions”, he said, dismissing as “absurd” the debate prompted by Brigitte magazine which said it would no longer feature professional models on its pages.”, may be EATING his words.
In the Size Issue of V Magazine, Karl Lagerfeld is the featured designer for the day 4 photo with Burlesque sensation Dirty Martini. ”Martini” is a curvylicious woman who wears her “sexy” on the outside with no apologies. Clearly he did not mistake her for one of his 00 models.
With no public apology from Karl, is this his way of saying to the plus size community ”I’m sorry for being such a closed minded jerk.”?
I’m not holding my breath, that Karl Lagerfeld will be designing for plus size women any time soon, however I’m excited that he somehow felt the pressure and could not pass up the opportunity to participate in such an amazing and time changing time in fashion history.
We can only hope that this is not a passing trend but that it really will become the new way for fashion and modeling.
Curves ahead for 2010!
Source: www.models.com
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About Editor-in-Chief, Madeline Figueroa-Jones
Madeline hails from a close-knit NYC family and started her plus size modeling career with a spread in BBW magazine. In early 2003 Figueroa was selected to appear as the spokes model for the "Hips, Heels & Curves" Fashion Show, continuing on to casting director for the Dangerous Curves 2003/2004 Tour. After appearing on several television segments including Aqui Y Ahora for Univision she began reaching out to the plus size community by serving as a moderator for VenusDivas.com, Empowerment Editor for AmaZeMagazine.com. Madeline and her husband Luke reside in the Battery Park city area of NY and operate lucaspictures.net.
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Well every idiot is allowed his day in conscience court! Like you I am not holding my breath for the Lagerfeld full figured collection, but it’s good to see that his world of fashion fantasy now includes one of the people that the supposed ‘fat mothers with chips sitting in front of the television’ might actually enjoy looking at.
by the way, my ‘skinny’ friends are the biggest consumers of chips and dips and moan and complain about ounces on their thighs…
Is it that some of us big beauties are just more evolved than they are???
Hmmm….
There are so many things wrong with Lagerfeld’s initial statement that it would take hours (or pages) to dissect them all, but let me just say, I’m a size eight woman WITH CURVES! And are not curvy women precisely what fill men’s magazines? (So obviously someone wants to look at them).
Perhaps one of Lagerfeld’s mates got a hold of him, gave him a good shake and suggested (and this is just me being a cynic) that ultimately Lagerfeld needs to sell clothes. He’s a business after all, and alienating his customers is not the way to make money.
I guess we are all guilty of saying stupid things but he certainly took the cake with that insane quote. I’m glad that in some ways he had to EAT HIS OWN WORDS with this editorial. It was not professional or politically correct for him to bash women like he did. As women and more importantly plus size women continue to stand up and demand respect, better clothing and equality it won’t be so easy for people to do things like this open an publicly.
I agree with you Rebecca… but the argument I’ve had thrown back at me is that just as we have different models in our industry such as fit, commercial and fashion they have different models as well. Most models that are in men’s magazines are curvy and not a size 0 while the fashion models are bony thin and without an ounce of fat on them.
I think that the industry is begging to be changed and now even the magazines have jumped on board.
All we need is for Vogue to do this in a big way, just like V Magazine and plus size models and fashions might end up being in main stream America.
You have to admit, what a way to start a year!
Yes, this editorial is amazing and Lagerfeld completely exceeded my expectations.
But he is a sneaky one. When Karl said “No one wants to see curvy women” he was talking primarily about plus size models. By using a burlesque performer, Lagerfeld has cannily avoided endorsing plus size models.
excellent observation frances … but that will eventually catch up with him
His comment was a stupid comment period!!!! It just shows that it is ok to show hate to a person who is full figured, You can’t say anything about a gay person, or about a person of another race( which you should not say anything negative) but it is ok to talk negative about a woman who is full figured, like were are creatures from another planet or somthing. I think the fashion business is afraid that the truth will come out, that ALL WOMEN ARE beatiful not just the sick skinny models they promote. They are afraid that they will be proven wrong, or people will begging to see that you can be beatiful at any size and won’t buy their clothes anymore. God will get him for that comment.
It has to also be said that this is mostly an accessories shoot – Ms Martini is likely wearing her own costumes underneath all the glitz – VMag hasn’t run the styling notes for this shoot like they have for the others, so who is to know whether they can buy any of it?
Karl is very clever at playing his little games with the media – but he is not the only person who gets to decide whether or not todress larger models in Chanel!
@Venus & RunwayRevolution
You’re both right … it’s all surface, and God will definitely get him for his stupid, thoughtless comment.
My mother’s take on this (because I shared it with her) – the world of the flat and dimensionless woman is jealous because nothing looks better than a well tailored piece of clothing on a full figured, confident woman, and people never throw stones at trees devoid of fruit…
Love your mother’s comment on this as well as yours. Clothing is supposed to enhance the curves of a woman’s body. It’s supposed to make you look and feel your personal best at whatever size that may be. Looking at clothing on a SUPER skinny model is so BORING!!!!
I LOVE your mum. Do you think she might adopt me? She’s right on both counts of course.