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Lagerfeld: Let the Little People Watch Porn


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Filmmaker Bruce LaBruce interviews fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld in the latest issue of Vice, and BlackBook has found some of the most curious Lagerfeld quotes, including his views on gay marriage, prostitution, and Anna Wintour.

• On his stand against gay marriage: “Yes, I’m against it for a very simple reason: In the '60s they all said we had the right to the difference. And now, suddenly, they want a bourgeois life. ... And I also believe more in the relationship between mother and child than in that between father and child.”

• On porn and escorts: “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.”

• On his relationship with Anna Wintour: “People I’m really friendly with have faxes. Anna Wintour has one. We speak via fax.”

Read the full Vice interview here.

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  • Name: Tod
    Date posted: 3/18/2010 4:50:41 AM
    Hometown: West Hollywood

    Comment:

    I’m sorry Karl. I was a little hard on you before. It was a moment. Something he said got me thinking. I flashed on a memory of my uncle and his buddies who are the same generation. For them it was the rejection of straight life, the heavy requirements that were expected of them, and the right to “a different way,” as Karl says. Since then, my uncles have been a couple but they were never interested in the marriage concept or any of those trimming. Now the pendulum swings back. Today we feel the “right to the difference” and the right to choose including marriage and family is inherent to human experience. We can have both. I agree that it’s important to not mimic straight life, if that is what's happening. We deserve our own voice and place. But I don’t believe same-gender marriage is doing that or that we’re giving up our difference for it. Thanks for the thought Karl.

  • Name: Hugh
    Date posted: 3/18/2010 1:05:02 AM
    Hometown: Dallas

    Comment:

    What a lovely man. His Mother must be so proud. If I was the luckiest poor man in the world maybe I could be one of his low paid high class male hookers. Never underestimate the the dreams of us poor slobs down here beneath the gods like Karl Lagerfeld.

  • Name: Rich
    Date posted: 3/17/2010 10:01:23 PM
    Hometown: Kansas City

    Comment:

    It's pretty amazing how these comments are almost uniformly negative. I think Celia is right in characterizing him as narcissistic, and this could explain all the negative comment...Nobody raises the ire of others more than a narcissist, who withdraws his caring about the external world because it's too dicey, and instead invests it all in himself...Very interesting! He's no doubt unfathomably miserable too, though...

  • Name: Tyler
    Date posted: 3/17/2010 1:17:24 PM
    Hometown: san luis obispo

    Comment:

    I don't know who this guy is or what he's talking about, he makes absolutely no sense.

  • Name: Carlos
    Date posted: 3/17/2010 1:14:58 PM
    Hometown: Miami

    Comment:

    Perhaps if his life were not so sheltered then he may see the real world.

  • Name: Andrew
    Date posted: 3/17/2010 6:40:24 AM
    Hometown: Sacramento, CA

    Comment:

    Oh, don't be so hard on Karl! It can't be easy.... to find gay hookers that are into necrophilia! Nice tan. Just die already bitch, momma needs some luggage. LOL : )

  • Name: Tod
    Date posted: 3/17/2010 5:17:14 AM
    Hometown: West Hollywood

    Comment:

    Oh Karl, cheer up. But, he has the right to his personal opinion regardless if we like it. We just won’t ask him to defend us or love us. His ideas about love sound horrible, detached, cold, lonely, locked out. He sounds sad and pompous and all the fabulousness around him won't warm his heart. Oh yeah, he's in fashion he doesn't have a heart. It's all about the look and moment. Who wants to be rich and miserable. You know the old joke that gay men need to make more money because once you get old you’ll have to pay for it. It may apply. If he’s talking about how to drape cloth on the body the man knows his sh*t, otherwise I’m not sure. He may want to stick to his so-called upper class world, which I’m sure he does. What do you bet he has an extensive collection of porn too. It’s cheaper and doesn't involve emotion or people, especially "the lessor" people.

  • Name: Jim
    Date posted: 3/17/2010 12:47:54 AM
    Hometown: Chicago

    Comment:

    Baby Jane Hudson LIVES!!

  • Name: Stephan
    Date posted: 3/16/2010 11:44:25 PM
    Hometown: Atlanta

    Comment:

    Someone needs to roll grandma Karl into the kitchen. She's not fit for company in the parlor. Who cares what this crazy old troll thinks.

  • Name: Raphel
    Date posted: 3/16/2010 8:43:19 PM
    Hometown: World

    Comment:

    I think as a young man when he bleached his hair that trademark white that they left it on to long and it seeped into his brain. It also explains why his fashion shows are some of the strangest spectacles going. What a wingbat.

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