More Quotes From Crazy Karl
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from le Karl hasn’t it?
Guess he was busy readying for the Channel fall/winter 2010 show for Paris fashion week, and terrifying his minions.
In an overly long and rambling interview with Vice Magazine (who might want to reconsider sending Bruce laBruce out to interview people when he’s far more interested in tasking about himself), Karl Lagerfeld weighs in on a variety of subjects…
On fame and celebrity: “You cannot fight against it. There’s a price you have to pay for fame, and people who don’t want to pay that price can get in trouble. I accepted the idea of celebrity because of a French expression: “You cannot have the butter and the money for the butter.” And now I cannot cross the street. I cannot go anywhere. I have bodyguards. I have big cars… I don’t travel commercially. Whenever I go around the world I go on private jets.”
On homosexuality: “When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said—and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded—“It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.” This was a very healthy attitude. Some people make drama out of it. I don’t even understand. It’s not a problem. It doesn’t exist. It’s not a subject. For me it never was.”
On those sunglasses of his: “They’re my burka. A burka for a man. I’m a little shortsighted, and people, when they’re shortsighted, they remove their glasses and then they look like cute little dogs who want to be adopted. I want to stay shortsighted or else I will need glasses for reading. But I don’t want them because I sketch, I do everything without glasses, except for speaking to strangers. Especially if they wear glasses, too.”
On porn and sex: “I admire porn. And I personally only like high-class escorts. I don’t like sleeping with people I really love. I don’t want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever. I think this is healthy. And for the way the rich live, this is possible. But the other world, I think they need porn. I also think it’s much more difficult to perform in porn than to fake some emotion on the face as an actor. I admire porn actors.”
There’s a lot more, like wearing fur (he’s all for it), his aversion to being politically correct (it’s dull) and voting (not happening). The best thing about le Karl though, is that he dosen’t give a rats ass what people think if they disagree with his views. “Not possible” is his usual response.
Heh.
Rock on Karl, rock on.
